The FTTH Council Europe has made public the first results of its updated study on the cost of deploying FTTH throughout the EU as input to the ongoing legislative debate on the proposal for a European Electronic Communications Code. The cost model calculated the complete overlay of the EU28 countries with fibre (Fibre to the […]
Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) deployment in Spain has grown by 50 per cent over the last year, reaching over 3 million active lines agaistt 1.57 million 12 months ago. Active lines, with speeds of up to or over 30Mbps, grew by 82 per cent in a year. The figures from regulator CNMC reveal that the total amount […]
Installed fibre to the home (FTTH) connections in Spain have increased by more than 50 per cent during 2016 to 22.6 million according to the latest statistical data from the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) on fixed broadband services and deployment of new generation networks with geographic detail based on data […]
Vodafone has selected China’s Huawei to upgrade ONO’s network – with the goal of offering 7.7 million residential and businesses units up to 2 Gigabytes speed in two to three years’ time. With an investment of €100 million, in an initial phase the download speed will reach 1 Gbps and the upload speed will hit […]
Sky has launched what it claims is the UK’s lowest fibre broadband and line rental offer exclusive for Sky TV customers and a brand new Sky Broadband Tech Team. Sky Fibre will be available for £20 (€24) a month, including line rental (usually £27.40), and a reduced one off set up cost of just £19.95, […]
The deployment of FTTH network in Spain is speeding up with more than 4.57 million lines at the end of October. The latest CNMC stats reveal that FTTH lines are increasing every month with 155,180 new lines in October, and 1.8 million year-on-year, up 47 per cent. Movistar is the market leader with 2.9 million […]
Portugal ended the third quarter of 2016 with more than 3.63 million pay-TV subscribers, representing a growth of 44,000 customers (+1.2 per cent) on the previous quarter and 159,000 (+4.6 per cent) more than one year earlier, according to stats from Anacom, Portugal’s National Communications Authority. Growth was driven by fibre optic offerings (FTTH/FTTB), whose […]
The number of UK properties unable to get a decent broadband connection has fallen by one million over the past year, new research by UK comms regulator Ofcom has found. But 1.4 million UK homes and offices – or 5 per cent of properties – remain unable to sign up for broadband speeds over 10 […]
Italian broadband operator Fastweb will provide 1 Gbps connectivity on the FTTH network in 30 Italian cities. The service has just launched in Milan, to be followed by Turin and Bologna. Starting from 2017, the following cities will also be covered: Ancona, Bari, Bergamo, Brescia, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Messina, Modena, Monza, Naples, Rome, Padua, Palermo, […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the results of its ongoing nationwide performance study of consumers’ fixed broadband Internet access service in its sixth Measuring Broadband America report. The report furthers the Commission’s efforts to provide greater transparency about network performance to help consumers make more informed choices about their Internet Service Provider. This […]