FTTH has become the main access technology for pay-TV services in Portugal at the end of the first half of 2018, accounting for 38.2 per cent of total subscribers. The data from the National Communications Authority (Anacom) reveals that there were 3.9 million pay-TV subscribers in Portugal, up 131,000 on the same period last year. […]
The European Parliament has gathered in Strasbourg on November 15th to approve the new European Electronic Communications Code, which will soon become the new legislative framework for telecommunications. The FTTH Council Europe welcomes this vote on a new framework which provides the National Regulatory Authorities with the guidance and the tools to reflect Europe’s ambition […]
The pay-TV football war is taken its toll on the performance of Vodafone Spain. In the first six months of FY 2018 (from April 1 to September 30), Vodafone Spain lost 98,000 subscribers and saw its revenues fall by 3.2 per cent to €2.42 billion. Revenues per service fell by 4.7 per cent to €2.20 […]
As Singapore continues to rapidly digitalise, StarHub is assisting cable customers to get their homes onto fibre connectivity. Donovan Kik, Vice President of Segment and Marketing, StarHub, said, “We constantly refresh our service offerings to ensure they are aligned with what our customers desire, including the best possible service standards and more choices on the […]
UK telco BT has reported revenue of £11.588 billion for its second quarter, down 2 per cent and adjusted revenue of £11.624 billion, down 1 per cent as growth in its consumer business was offset by regulated price reductions in its Openreach infrastructure subsidiary and declines in its enterprise businesses. Operationally, the telco reported that […]
The UK Government is to give rural areas a £200 million funding package as part of its full-fibre broadband pledge. The money – announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond as part of his Budget measures – has been allocated from the National Productivity Infrastructure Fund and is intended as a stimulus for companies […]
FTTH in Spain continues to grow with 146,295 lines added in August to hit 7.8 million customers, according to figures from regulatory body CNMC. FTTH already represents over 50 per cent of the total broadband fixed market in the country with 14.59 million. Movistar leads the FTTH market with 3.7 million lines, 47.8 per cent […]
MásMóvil has published its results for the first nine months of the year in which the company increased profitability and continued leading the growth of the telco market in Spain. In this period, MásMóvil reached a net income of €57 million and an adjusted net income of €106 million. In response, the company has updated […]
Tens of thousands more new-build homes could be in line for a broadband boost after Openreach, the UK’s digital network business, is to reduce the price it charges developers for its future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology by more than three quarters. The new pricing means UK house builders will pay just a fraction of the current […]
With 50 per cent of houses still connected to less than 100Mbps, a combination of solutions comparable to Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) is essential to efficiently provide the speeds required by end-users, according to NetComm Marketing and Communications Director Els Baert. Speaking on the final day of Broadband World Forum 2018, Baert said that although fibre assets […]