The UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee has launched an inquiry into the challenges facing full-fibre and 5G roll-out, examining Government’s pledge to ensure every home and business in the UK has gigabit-capable broadband by 2025. The Committee monitors the policy, administration and expenditure of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and […]
Nokia is expanding its fibre access portfolio to include new solutions and innovations that will enable service providers to deliver a gigabit experience to everyone, sooner. The enhanced portfolio includes a new Lightspan MF access node designed for the 5G era, a new Beacon 6 in-home gateway that supports 5G mobile data offloading and several […]
FTTH reached 10 million lines in Spain at the end of November 2019, according to telecommunications market data published by competition and markets watchdog the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). Movistar accounted for 42.8 per cent of the total FTTH lines, with a total of 4.3 million lines. Eighty-six per cent […]
Fibre-to-the-building Internet Service Provider Hyperoptic has been named the fastest broadband provider in the UK in the annual Broadband Genie home broadband awards. Comparison site Broadband Genie’s analysis of 91,000 speed tests carried out in 2019 found Hyperoptic had an average download speed of 211Mbps and an average upload speed of 166Mbps. But Hyperoptic wasn’t […]
Spain’s Cellnex and France’s Bouygues Telecom have entered into a strategic partnership to set up a joint company (51 per cent owned by Cellnex and 49 per cent by Bouygues) that will deploy a national optic fibre network throughout France, providing fixed and mobile connectivity and boosting the roll out of 5G. The new company […]
ETSI has announced the launch of a new group dedicated to specifying the fifth generation of Fixed Network (ETSI ISG F5G). ETSI stated we are entering a new era of communications, and fixed networks play an essential role in that evolution alongside and in cooperation with mobile networks. Building on previous generations of fixed networks, […]
Full year results from Movistar reveal that in 2019 the Telefónica-owned telco reached 4.3 million FTTH customers, up 9.8 per cent year-on-year, but pay-TV subscribers were down 0.4 per cent to a total of 4.07 million. Movistar has already passed 23.1 million homes for FTTH, adding 449,000 in the last quarter of 2019 and 1.8 […]
Google Fiber, part of the Access division of Alphabet Inc, which provides gigabit fibre broadband Internet and IPTV to a number of locations in the US, will no longer be offering a traditional linear TV product to its new subscribers, saying it is happy to help everyone explore other options to get their favourite programming […]
FTTH continues its rapid growth in Spain and now has over 9.7 million lines – up 145,738 since October 2019, according to latest data from the CNMC. Year-on-year. FTTH lines increased by 1.7 million to the detriment of ADSL with a 1.2 million drop. Over the last four years FTTH has risen by 5.34 million […]
Following his election as Chair of the UK House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Julian Knight MP has set out three areas he sees as priorities during his tenure. He said he was “delighted” to have secured the support of the House to lead the DCMS Committee in the new Parliament. “Having […]