The FTTH Council Europe has announced the appointment of Vincent Garnier as its new Director General, effective as of July 13th. Garnier brings to this position 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, in Marketing and Business Development in EMEA and Asia for BtoB companies. Most recently he was Marketing Director responsible for defining […]
Research commissioned by networking systems, services and software company Ciena has found that seven out of 10 (69 per cent) British adults are now working from home at least some of the time, up from 9 per cent before Covid-19 lockdown measures took effect. This 776 per cent increase is not just a temporary change, […]
Movistar and MásMóvil, Spain’s first and fourth largest telcos respectively, have reached an agreement to share their networks. Thanks to the five year deal, MásMóvil will be able to cover around 500,000 new homes with FTTH and have access to future deployments of Movistar FTTH network across the country. The agreement will also allow MásMóvil […]
UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach, who builds and maintains the largest fixed communications network in Northern Ireland (NI), has reached a significant milestone, with 360,000 homes and businesses – more than 40 per cent of properties – now able to access Full Fibre broadband at speeds of up to 1 Gbps. The milestone achievement comes […]
France’s telecoms regulator Arcep’s annual status report on the French telecoms market shows that in 2019, operators in France invested €500 million more than in 2018, for an overall total (excluding spending on frequencies) of €10.4 billion. Investments in nominal terms have increased by close to 50 per cent in five years. For the third […]
Orange Spain and MásMóvil, the second and the fourth largest operators in Spain respectively, have reached an agreement to extend FTTH networks to between 2.2 and 2.7 million homes in the country. Both companies will share the new accesses for a period of 20 years and will be deployed in the next three years. MásMóvil […]
Openreach has completed what they claim is the fastest city-wide network build in the UK – making ’Full Fibre’ broadband available to more than 20,000 premises in just under 12-months, starting in March 2019 and finishing in March 2020. Plans to announce the completion in March were postponed in light of the pandemic. Clive Selley, […]
CityFibre, the UK’s third national digital infrastructure platform, is initiating a three-year recruitment and training programme to provide up to 10,000 people with jobs upgrading the UK’s digital infrastructure to full fibre. The Government has made the nationwide deployment of full fibre by 2025 a key target. According to CiyFibre, this critical initiative will underpin […]
Portugal saw the highest growth in pay-TV subscribers in the past four years, reaching 4.1 million at the end of March 2020. According to data released by the National Communications Authority (Anacom), more than 160,000 new pay-TV subscribers were added in the period January-March, corresponding to a 4 per cent growth on the same period […]
During its first virtual General Assembly, trade body the FTTH Council Europe adopted its work programme and priorities and elected new Board members and Work Committee Chairs. The European Commission recently presented an ambitious recovery plan for the EU economy also focusing on green and digital transformations. According to the FTTH Council Europe, the past […]