Irish open-access wholesale broadband provider SIRO is partnering with multiplay operator Sky Ireland to deliver high speed fibre services to consumers. The partnership is the latest investment by Sky in its infrastructure in Ireland as part of its strategy to ensure that its customers can avail of the highest broadband speeds across the country. Having […]
Orange Spain has extended its symmetrical 500 Mbps fibre offer to all its convergent subscribers to the LOVE package, claiming to be the first in Spain to provide the highest speed to all its customers. LOVE subscribers will be able to enjoy the new offer from €63.95 a month with TV at €8.95 or La […]
TalkTalk has reported 1.6 million customers now benefit from its Fixed Low Price Plans, a year after the telecoms company launched the packages. TalkTalk says it remains the first and only broadband provider to let customers fix their broadband price for up to 24 months – bucking the industry trend of mid-contract price-hikes – and […]
Spanish telco Telefónica is currently testing Plastic Optical Fiber (POF), a network made of plastic which, according to the company, is easy to install in households and guarantees a connection of up to 1Gbps. Telefónica has so far tested it in 30 households with up to four fibre sockets in each home (with hybrid network […]
The development of FTTH in Spain is speeding up with more than 6 million lines following the 173,974 rise in September, according to the CNMC. Movistar represented 54.5 per cent of the increase, with 3.3 million lines. DSL lines decreased by 101,288 lines in September with HFC growing by 23,409. Over the last 12 months […]
Vodafone is expanding its UK fixed marketing FTTP services with the wholesale operator CityFibre. They plan to connect fibre services to one million homes by 2021 and up to 5 million by 2025, around 20 per cent of the UK broadband market. Vodafone will have a period of exclusive rights to market consumer broadband services […]
Italy has made great strides in expanding fixed broadband coverage from 43.9 per cent in 2015 to 72.3 per cent in 2016, reducing the gap from the European average to just 3.7 percentage points. However, on the demand side, fibre accounted for only 3 per cent of total broadband subscribers in 2016, well below the […]
The UK’s Communications Providers have welcomed the ambition of Openreach, the infrastructure subsidiary of BT, to build a large-scale Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the country, with the company’s CEO suggesting that it could build FTTP connections to ten million homes and businesses by the mid-2020s. There is also broad agreement that FTTP would safeguard the […]
The development of FTTH is at a formidable speed in Spain. Latest figures from the CNMC reveal that FTTH reached 5.89 million lines in August with the addition of 128,710 lines in the month versus July and 1.6 million against March 2016. Movistar leads the market with 3.26 million lines, 55.4 per cent of the […]
nbn, the company building Australia’s national wholesale broadband access network, has activated its first Fibre-to-the-Curb (FTTC) premises as part of its ongoing trials of the network technology in Coburg, a northern suburb of Melbourne. In connecting a trial premises to FTTC the company has achieved speeds of 109Mbps downstream and 44Mbps upstream using VDSL technology […]