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 […]
Samsung Electronics and Italian telco Fastweb are to conduct Italy’s first 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) trial on commercial spectrum. Companies are trialling to demonstrate how 5G FWA networks could serve as a compelling alternative to FTTH (Fibre-to-the-Home) to deliver ultra-broadband connectivity and gigabit experience to end users. Following the recently-signed agreement by the companies, […]
The digital divide between Americans with and without access to modern broadband networks has narrowed substantially, according to the draft 2019 Broadband Deployment Report, which has been circulated by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to his fellow commissioners. “For the past two years, closing the digital divide has been the FCC’s top priority,” Chairman Pai said. […]
eir has launched its fixed network investment programme, which will cost more than €0.5 billion over five years and pass an additional 1.4 million premises with an FTTH network capable of speeds up to 10 Gbps. “Ireland’s Fibre Network”, the next step in the evolution of eir’s network and the expansion of the telecoms infrastructure […]
Netflix has released January data from its ISP Speed Index, a monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience. A number of ISPs experienced significant speed decreases on the index this month. The biggest decline hit Israel’s 099.net, whose speeds slowed by 0.75 Megabits per second (Mbps), […]
The fibre network of French Internet Service Provider (ISP) ZEOP has been upgraded by Iskratel, a European provider of broadband access solutions – enabling the operator to deliver enhanced, triple-play services to its customers and gain additional revenue. Iskratel’s GPON FTTH Home Gateway Innbox G68 solution was installed across ZEOP’s network on Réunion Island, providing […]
Nokia and German service provider M-net are testing ‘probabilistic constellation shaping’ using Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) as part of the preparation for rolling out a new wave division multiplexing (WDM) network for the southern German state of Bavaria. PSE-3 uses probabilistic constellation shaping (PCS), an advanced signal processing technique pioneered by Bell Labs. […]
UK multiplay operator Virgin Media is trialling what it says is the UK’s fastest home broadband after successfully testing a connection offering speeds of more than 8Gbps to homes in the Cambridgeshire region of England. The hyperfast connection uses Virgin Media’s existing fibre network to provide download speeds more than 200 times faster the UK […]