UK digital network infrastructure provider Openreach is announcing a further 51 exchange locations across the UK, covering around 0.51 million premises, where it is planning to stop selling its legacy analogue services and instead focus on providing people with a modern, futureproof Full Fibre connection. This brings the total number of exchange locations where it […]
Telecoms firms are being urged to resegment their market and understand what’s happening in the household in order to optimise their opportunities in the New Normal and accelerate time to new revenue. According to research from analyst firm Omnisperience, telecoms service providers have spent billions on designing, deploying and innovating new networks such as 5G […]
Virgin Media has demonstrated the power and capability of its fibre-rich network by successfully delivering next-generation 2.2Gbps broadband speeds to homes in Thatcham, Berkshire through a real-world trial. The multi-gigabit speeds – 34 times faster than the UK’s average broadband speeds – have been delivered via Virgin Media’s existing, future-proof cable network using broadband technology […]
UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a further 67 locations in its Fibre Cities programme where it will be building its new, future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology, as part of a new tranche of build. Work will begin in March 2021. The new locations stretch across the nation – from Alloway, in Ayrshire; to […]
A quarter of a million rural homes and businesses across England have been given access to more financial help to get top-of-the-range broadband speeds. More than £22 million (€23.8m) of additional funding is being invested into the UK Government’s broadband voucher scheme, which subsidises the costs of building gigabit-capable broadband networks to hard-to-reach areas. Digital […]
New figures published by UK comms regulator Ofcom suggest that full-fibre broadband is now available to over 4.2 million UK homes. The figures are included in Ofcom’s Connected Nations summer update, which provides a summary of broadband and mobile availability across the UK and its nations, as of May 2020. Key findings from the report […]
In light of the ongoing pandemic, the FTTH Council Europe has announced that this years FTTH Conference, scheduled for December 2nd – 3rd, will now be a virtual event. The FTTH Council Europe will reschedule the physical FTTH Conference to September 21st-23rd 2021. In a statement, the COuncil said: “We are confident that this decision, […]
Spain’s fifth largest operator Euskaltel has signed an agreement with Adamo, which has a large presence in rural areas, to strengthen its FTTH network with an additional one million homes. The agreement will allow Euskaltel to significantly break into Catalonia – where Adamo has a big presence – as well as Madrid and many rural […]
FTA Communication Technologies (Inverto), a provider of broadcast reception equipment, smart metering and monitoring solutions and advanced satellite and IP streaming solutions today announced the launch of Unifiber – a new product family addressing the increasing demand for reliable, high quality and cost effective solutions for distributing TV services over fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks. As bandwidth […]
Almost 500,000 premises across the UK have been connected to gigabit-capable broadband since summer 2018. This is part of a £1 billion (€1.11bn) government funding commitment until the end of 2021, with a further £5 billion for the hardest-to-reach areas to be earmarked soon. It means that, alongside commercial investment, more than 7.5 million premises […]