High speed fibre broadband is to be piloted in six regions of the UK. The first stage of a £200 million (€218m) publicly funded scheme to help bring the UK’s fastest and most reliable broadband to businesses, schools and hospitals kicked off Sunday 3rd September with the launch of six local pilots. The projects will […]
French telco Iliad has reported H1 revenues are up 7.3 per cent year-on-year to €2,464 million. The Group continued its FTTH rollout drive during the first six months of 2017, with 900,000 new connectible sockets installed, bringing the total to 5.3 million at June 30th 2017, and some 110,000 additional subscribers connected to fibre during […]
Multi-play telco Digicel and Huawei Technologies have teamed up to push the boundaries of technology and put the real power of fibre to the test with the first-ever local linear broadcast of Ultra HD TV in the Caribbean. Hosted at Digicel’s downtown Kingston headquarters in Jamaica, the test demonstrated the benefit of having a 100 […]
Australia’s national broadband network (nbn) has reached another significant rollout milestone with six million homes and businesses now able to connect to fast broadband from their preferred Internet provider over the nbn network. The company’s goal is to provide universal high-speed wholesale access and connect eight million homes and businesses by 2020 in partnership with […]
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 […]