Italian broadband operator Fastweb reached 7.8 million homes in 130 cities with its FTTC and FTTH networks at the end of June. A further 19 cities are in the process of being connected to the FTTC network, while nearly 50 per cent of households can receive speeds of up to 200 Mbps. In the FTTH […]
New data, extracted by broadband recommendation site Cable.co.uk from over 63 million broadband speed tests worldwide has revealed that UK speeds are behind 30 other countries, with an average speed of 16.51Mbps. The data was collected across the 12 months up to 10th May 2017 by M-Lab, a partnership between New America’s Open Technology Institute, […]
The Berkeley Group – one of the UK’s best-known developers of new homes – says access to ultrafast broadband is now almost as important to new home buyers as running water and electricity. According to Berkeley’s Chief Executive, Rob Perrins, owners expect it to be available from the day they move in and the company […]
The number of fixed broadband lines in Italy with speeds higher than 10 Mbps has surpassed 16 million units (+770,000 year-on-year) in the first quarter of 2017. Data from the Communications Observatory, published by Italy’s Communications Authority (AgCom), show a drop of accesses in xDSL technology (-600,000). However, accesses in other technologies grew by 1.37 […]
Clive Selley, Openreach CEO, has said 10 million UK premises could access fibre by the mid-2020s. Selley has shifted the company towards FTTP since taking over last year, made the comments as he launched a consultation with its service provider customers. The company said it wanted to identify whether there is “widespread demand” for a […]
ADTRAN, a provider of next-generation open networking solutions, has announced the start of lab testing of the latest innovations in the G.fast standard, 212MHz and coordinated dynamic time allocation (cDTA) together with Deutsche Telekom (DT). DT is evaluating these ultra-broadband technologies using Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB) deployment models allowing the use of existing cable infrastructure within the […]
French telco Altice-SFR has revealed plans to fibre the entire French territory with no public money, which it says will make it possible to achieve the French President and Government’s goal of giving access to high-speed broadband throughout France. Altice-SFR’s contribution to the State’s deployment programme is reflected in the creation of Altice Infrastructures, a […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has announced how infrastructure unit Openreach will be held to account, as it becomes legally separate from BT, to ensure it delivers for phone and broadband users. Ofcom expects the reformed Openreach to engage with industry to deliver widespread fibre networks, offering fast, reliable broadband. The new company should provide a […]
Online video consumption and broadband distribution continues to grow rapidly across Asia Pacific with content monetisation models steadily evolving, according to a new report, Asia Pacific Online Video & Broadband Distribution, published by independent consulting and research provider Media Partners Asia (MPA). The report indicates
According to research conducted by Dataxis, fixed broadband connections for Latin America in the first quarter of 2017 reached 68.11 million. The market recorded an increase of 5.9 per cent from Q1 2016 and reached 35.8 per cent household penetration. In the first quarter of 2017, DSL technology still dominates the market with 51.5 per […]