Salisbury will become the first entire city in the UK to gain access to Openreach’s new, future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology, in what is expected to be the fastest city-wide network build in the UK. The UK’s digital infrastructure company is aiming for its ‘Fibre First’ build programme in Salisbury to be completed within a […]
Spanish telco Telefónica plans to soon offer download speeds of up to 2.5 Gbps through its FTTH network. The 2.5 Gbps speed compares to the current 600 Mbps currently on offer in its Fusión packages. In its annual financial report, the company claims to be ready to provide that service and even reach 2.5 Gbps […]
Video software solutions specialist Espial has released its vision paper, Digital Transformation, The New Imperatives for Operators, which reveals the real opportunities available for video operators that embrace a truly disruptive business model. Taking a page from companies such as
The latest figures of the FTTH Market Panorama prepared by IDATE have been released, revealing forecasts for 2020 and 2025 for the first time. The number of fibre to the home (FTTH) and fibre to the building (FTTB) subscribers in Europe increased by 15.7 per cent in EU39 since September 2017 with more than 59.6 […]
The FTTH Council Europe has revealed the results of its study aimed at quantifying the potential cost savings, which could be made by building converged 5G-fibre networks. In other words, can some savings be made if an operator anticipates and builds a FTT-5G network while planning and rolling-out a FTTH network? “5G has become a […]
Netgem has signed a strategic partnership with ZTE, an international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, to offer connected home solutions to European fibre operators. ZTE will provide its devices portfolio and innovation roadmap backed up with its production capability and a long-term financing facility. Netgem will provide its […]
Iskratel, the European provider of broadband access solutions, has announced its partnership with French telecommunications engineering company Telenco Distribution as it continues to expand its activity in the French market. As part of the new partnership, Telenco Distribution will provide Iskratel’s full range of innovative GPON solutions for future-proof upgrades of Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) networks across […]
The markets and technologies which will drive continued rapid broadband growth over the next decade have been revealed by Broadband Forum and Point Topic in a report which predicts there will be 1.2 billion fixed broadband subscribers by 2025. Following the announcement last October that there are now one billion global fixed broadband subscribers, this […]
France’s electronic communications Arcep is publishing has published its scoreboard for the fixed broadband and superfast broadband market (rollouts and subscriptions) in France as of the end of December 2018. This quarter confirms the ongoing progress in FTTH subscription numbers and rollouts. SUBSCRIPTIONS: Annual growth in the number of superfast access subscriptions reaches two million, […]
Experienced fibre network entrepreneur Matthew Hare, who set up and developed UK rural fibre network Gigaclear in 2010, has launched Zzoomm, a new full fibre network operator. Zzoomm will build and operate new full fibre infrastructure in towns and suburbs across the UK, delivering high quality broadband to homes and businesses which are currently only […]