Openreach, the UK’s digital infrastructure company, has announced 36 new locations where it will be building its new, future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology over the next 12 months. Work will begin in towns and cities across the country including Newcastle, Doncaster, Chelmsford and St Albans over the coming months, whilst four new locations in Scotland […]
Orange Spain’s revenues remained flat in the first half of the year reaching €2.6 billion, down 0.4 per cent versus the same period last year. EBITDA grew by 2 per cent to €787 million and CAPEX amounted to €529 million, down 7.8 per cent. Orange has over 3 million fibre optic customers, up 19.7 per […]
As customer demand for extreme high-capacity, low-latency data transport continues to grow, hybrid networking and cloud connectivity specialist CenturyLink is utilising its global multi-conduit infrastructure to expand the company’s intercity network by 4.7 million miles of fibre, which it says makes it the largest ultra-low-loss fibre network in North America. “Our newly built intercity fibre […]
UK digital network infrastructure provider Openreach is introducing a number of wholesale price reductions to encourage Communications Providers (CPs) to upgrade their customers – and attract new ones – onto faster, more reliable and future proof Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) connections. The new prices, some of which come into effect from September 1st, offer […]
Ericsson has helped Liberty Global to deliver high speed gigabit broadband and linear TV services to residential customers using Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) over a wireless backhaul ‘Trunk’ link. It is the result of an innovative trial between the two companies in which the wireless backhaul was delivered using Ericsson’s MINI-LINK radio […]
DISH has introduced DISH Fiber, a new bulk solution for multifamily communities that provides all US residents with immediate access to premium managed Wi-Fi and live streaming TV upon move in. DISH Fiber gives property owners the ability to deliver two important services to their residents, with flexible billing options and the ease of managing […]
UK multiplay operator Virgin Media has trialled the use of wireless radio signals to help connect homes in a Newbury village in the English area of West Berkshire to gigabit speeds and TV services over full fibre, claiming a first in the UK. The trial, led by Liberty Global and using Ericsson radio technology, has […]
UK telecoms infrastructure provider Openreach has kicked off a proposal to conduct two trials – in Salisbury and Mildenhall – to prepare the UK for the future nationwide upgrade to full fibre and ‘All-IP’ technologies. The move is part of its ongoing work with the UK’s Communications Providers (CPs) to withdraw ageing telephone and broadband […]
Claiming a UK first, full fibre infrastructure provider and ISP Truespeed will start offering residential customers a future-proof, Active Ethernet 10Gbps-capable full fibre service later in 2019. Unlike 10Gbps PON-based networks where the fibre-optic beam is split between customers on a segment of the network causing contention, Truespeed’s Active Ethernet network delivers a dedicated 10Gbps […]
Openreach engineers will use ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology for the first time to help minimise disruption and speed up the deployment of cutting-edge Fibre-to-the-Premises broadband infrastructure (FTTP) in Salisbury. Using GPR allows Openreach’s engineers to see and map out a clear route for its new cables without any drilling, probing or digging. That means […]