UK communications regulator Ofcom has published its first progress report on the legal separation of Openreach from its parent company BT. BT agreed in March 2017 to Ofcom’s requirements to make Openreach – which runs the UK’s main phone and broadband network – a distinct company. This means Openreach having its own staff, management and […]
Sky Italia is following its UK sister operation and is expanding its OTT fibre-based package of channels. Sky Italia will now work with Telecom Italia (TIM) and other telcos. A report from equity analysts at Deutsche Bank says this is a negative report for Eutelsat given that Sky Italia is their largest single client and […]
The co-legislators gathered today (June 6th) in presence of the European Commission reached an agreement on the European Electronic Communications Code, the piece of legislation aimed at revising the existing legislative framework for telecommunications. The FTTH Council Europe says it congratulates the policy-makers for this landmark agreement and welcomes the new Code, which promotes competitive […]
Nokia has announced that Frontier Communications, an integrated US-based communications provider delivering voice, data, high-speed Internet and video services, will deploy Nokia’s XGS-PON technology to deliver faster broadband speeds to business and residential customers. The phased roll out of the new enhanced services will initially focus on the greater Dallas/Fort Worth areas of Texas before […]
GTT Communications, a global cloud networking provider to multinational clients, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Interoute, operator of one of Europe’s largest independent fibre networks. “The acquisition of Interoute represents a major milestone in delivering on our purpose of connecting people across organisations, around the world and to every application in the […]
Fibre and cable networks are dominating the global broadband market, with the technologies now servicing 77 per cent of fixed subscriptions, figures from Point Topic have revealed. According to the Global Broadband Statistics, which take into account subscriptions up to the end of 2017, more than 50 per cent of people in more than 40 […]
Philip Hammond, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, has targeted seeing full-fibre to the premises connections being available to 15 million premises by 2025 and committed to delivering a nationwide full-fibre to the premises network by 2033. Delivering a speech at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Annual Dinner 2018, Hammond said that the government […]
FTTH penetration in Spain is significantly growing with almost 7 million connected homes as of February 28th. The latest data from the CNMC reveals that over the last year (February 2017 to February 2018) FTTH gained 1.8 million and over 167,000 only in February 2018. Telefónica’s Movistar leads the market with a share of 50.4 […]
Spanish telco Telefónica has broken a new record by passing 20 million homes with FTTH – 70 per cent of all households in the country. The company – which claims to have the largest FTTH network in Europe – has completed the FTTH deployment in the country’s largest cities with 244,000km of cable and is […]
Spanish telcos Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone are offering free faster FTTH speeds in an attempt to gain more subscribers. From today, Telefónica is doubling its speeds no extra cost for its 3.4 million FTTH customers, going from 50 Mbps to 100 Mbps and from 300 Mbps to 600 Mbps. Orange is increasing the Internet speeds […]