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 […]
The Broadband Coverage in Europe 2016 study from IHS Markit found that at the end of June 2016, more than three-quarters of EU homes have access to high-speed broadband services and 4G LTE coverage was nearly ubiquitous with 96 per cent of EU households covered by 4G LTE networks. This is the fourth edition of the […]
The rapid take-up of FTTH is changing the face of the telco distribution map in Spain, with FTTH surpassing DSL for the first time with 5.7 million lines versus 5.6 million, according to Spain’s Competition and Markets Authority (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia [CNMC]). FTTH increased by 107,712 lines in July, with […]
Italian fibre-optic company Open Fiber has expanded its existing cooperation with telecom operator Wind Tre for the development of FTTH broadband services. The agreement, already active in an initial 13 cities, has now been extended to a further 258 Italian cities included in the so-called clusters A and B (the areas of the country in […]
ICT solutions provider Huawei has launched the Envision video solution for cable MSOs (Multiple System Operators) designed to enhance hybrid video service capabilities and implement all-IP transformation of video services. The Envision video solution is designed not only to enable consumers to enjoy personalised multi-screen hybrid video services through diverse devices anytime anywhere, but also […]
Vodafone has become the first ISP in Spain to launch speeds of 1Gbps through its optic fibre network – significantly up from the previous highest speed of 300 Mbps. Starting September 25th, the company will charge a fee ranging from €65 to €106 for the convergent package One L –which includes unlimited calls from the […]
Fibre-optics telecommunications company Deutsche Glasfaser is expanding its IPTV service offerings across Germany, with a particular focus on ensuring rural areas have access to best in class fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) services. The company has chosen to include Media Excel encoders as an integral part of achieving these expansion plans. Deutsche Glasfaser has since been successfully rolling […]