Irish wholesale broadband provider SIRO, an ESB-Vodafone joint venture, is testing fibre technology that could offer symmetrical 10GBps connections. The company worked with Huawei to trial XGS-PON technology on its FTTH network, which has now surpassed 120,000 premises in 25 towns. Standardised in 2016, XGS-PON uses different wavelengths of light to allow multiple signals to […]
Orange Spain says it will increase its investment in fibre optic by €2 billion and surpass 16 million homes and businesses by 2020 – two million more lines than initially expected. The company plans to cover 70 per cent of all Spanish cities with over 5,000 inhabitants with FTTH, and 90 per cent of all […]
Spanish telco operators have entered into a price war to capture new customers with low cost optic-fibre offers. With their OMV subsidiaries Telefónica through Tuenti; Vodafone through Lowi; and Orange through Amena, the groups have launched convergent packages with fixed and mobile broadband Internet services with prices as low as €36 a month. Telefónica offers […]
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 […]