Philip Jansen, the chief executive of BT, has warned that real cost of the Labour opposition’s General Election pledge to roll out a full-fibre network nationwide and provide free broadband for all could be as high as £100 billion and that shareholders in BT will be forced to sell at a “deep discount” under a […]
UK multiplay telco Vodafone is expanding its Gigafast Broadband roll-out to bring full fibre services to many more consumers and small businesses in the UK after striking a new commercial deal with network infrastructure provider Openreach. From spring 2020, Vodafone will start making Vodafone Gigafast Broadband available to customers in Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool on […]
Spain’s largest telco Movistar has been fined €6 million for discriminatory actions against its rivals when repairing breakdown in its copper and FTTH networks used by third parties. The company took too much time and delayed without justified cause the provision of its services when repairing breakdowns in the networks used by its competitors. The […]
The fourth largest telco operator in Spain, MásMóvil, has signed a deal with Funds Macquarie Capital and Aberdeen Standard Investments to sell them 940,000 building units FTTH network in the country for €218.5 million. Macquarie Capital will set up a new company to offer broadband connections to homes and enterprises in five Spanish cities: Madrid, […]
FTTH grew by 112,000 lines in Spain in August totalling 9.6 million, according to the CNMC. In a year FTTH has experienced an increase of 1.8 million, with DSL losing 1.2 million by contrast. FTTH already represents 64 per cent of the total 15 million fixed broadband lines. Movistar is the market leader with 4.2 […]
Connecting the UK to Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband by 2025 would deliver almost a £60 billion (€68bn) boost to UK productivity – an average of more than £1,700 per worker – by unlocking smarter ways of working, better public services and greater opportunities for the next-generation of home-grown businesses. The figures are featured in a new […]
A new law will ensure the nine million people in the UK living in blocks of flats aren’t left behind in the Government’s nationwide upgrade to gigabit speed broadband, Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan has confirmed. The measures will make it easier to install faster Internet connections in blocks of flats where landlords repeatedly ignore requests […]
Zegona-controlled telco operator Euskaltel plans to sell its FTTH network to finance its national expansion throughout Spain. This plan, however, is being opposed by Euskaltel’s workers who regard the operation as potentially “harmful” to the company’s interests by reducing its infrastructure resources. Workers fear a redundancy plan in a later phase within R and possibl […]
Engineers at UK digital infrastructure business Openreach are trialling a range of new tools and techniques as they work to upgrade 13 of the UK’s rural communities to faster, more reliable and future-proof broadband technology. The trials are part of the company’s ambition to extend its new ‘full’ fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network into areas that are […]
Singapore multiplay operator StarHub has confirmed the completion of its cable-to-fibre migration for its TV and broadband services. “Over the past 10 months, StarHub assisted hundreds of thousands of customers to migrate from cable services to superior, high-speed fibre services,” advised Johan Buse, Chief of Consumer Business Group, StarHub. “Migrations of this scale are never […]