The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the key role that fibre networks will play in European economic recovery, according to participants at a virtual event – Delivering the Full-Fibre Gigabit Society: Challenges and Opportunities – organised by Forum Europe. With about 90 per cent of all Internet traffic in Europe carried over fixed broadband (FBB), full […]
In a further sign that it is moving away from reliance on Huawei as a vendor, UK digital network infrastructure provider Openreach is to deploy Nokia fibre solutions to help meet its target of bringing ultra-fast and reliable broadband access to 20 million homes across the UK by the mid-to-late 2020s. The fibre roll-out with […]
Virgin Telco, Euskaltel’s brand for Spanish expansion, has launched its offer with ‘flexible’ and à la carte packages at low-cost prices from €6 to €89 a month, including all premium services. Subscribers can take just the mobile service with 20Gbytes at €6 a month or with unlimited data for €29 a month. If interested in […]
In a move that signals a shift from its reliance on Huawei as a vendor, UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has selected next-generation open networking and subscriber experience solutions provider ADTRAN’s SDX Series of OLTs (Optical Line Terminals) and Mosaic Cloud Platform to help it achieve its ambition of making gigabit and multi-gigabit services available […]
UK digital network infrastructure provider Openreach has revealed the next steps in its ongoing programme to help upgrade the old analogue phone network to a new digital all-IP world. In more than a hundred locations across the UK, covering around 1.2 million premises, Openreach is planning to stop selling its legacy analogue services and instead […]
Average UK broadband speeds largely held up during the Covid-19 lockdown – despite rising demand from home working, online lessons and TV streaming. Ofcom’s Home Broadband Performance Report reveals how broadband speeds changed before and after the lockdown measures came in – when there was a surge in broadband use. Download and upload speeds fell […]
BT has announced what it describes as “the UK’s biggest communications infrastructure investment in a generation”. Philip Jansen, Chief Executive, commenting on the telco’s Year End results, said that BT had risen to the challenge of the coronavirus crisis, keeping the nation and the NHS connected, standing by its customers and supporting the most vulnerable […]
Broadband solutions provider Iskratel is to provide active and passive telecommunications equipment for the construction of an ultra-fast fibre-optic (XGS-PON and GPON) broadband network in 210 municipalities as part of the CEBF (Connecting Europe Broadband Fund) financed RUNE (Rural Network) project with its partners Rune Enia in Slovenia and Rune Crow in Croatia. As part […]
Fibre technology now accounts for nearly half of fixed access connections in Italy, according to the latest edition of the Communications Observatory of Italy’s telecommunications sector regulator (AgCom). At the end of December 2019, there were 7.76 million FTTC accesses or 39.7 per cent of the total (+21.7 per cent year-on-year), while FTTH lines totaled […]
The UK’s independent network sector has been praised for its significant contribution as the country was revealed as one of the fastest growers in Europe for delivering fibre networks to homes and businesses. The UK is revealed as one of five of the fastest-growing markets in Europe for making new connections in the FTTH Council […]