Telefónica is adding its TV service to all Movistar Fusión packages as it seeks to migrate all its ADSL customers to optic fibre between now and 2020. The company has launched two new packages, Movistar Fusión #0 and Movistar Fusión Series, to boost subscriptions. With these packages all Fusión subscribers can watch pay-TV content. The […]
The UK government has launched a £400 million (€455m) infrastructure fund to further investment in ‘full-fibre’ broadband. The aim is to offer speeds of up to one gigabit per second (Gbps) or more to households and businesses by having fibre optic cables run right up to their properties, rather than relying on copper cables to […]
According to Dataxis, the growth for FTTx (FTTH/B) is coming mostly from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, particularly from Russia. In 2016, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries accounted for 69 per cent of the FTTx (FTTB/H) representing 37 million subscribers. Furthermore, Dataxis estimates that Russia accounts for almost 68 per cent of FTTx […]
Spanish households subscribed to convergent packages with five services (fixed and mobile telephony, fixed and mobile Internet access and pay-TV) are spending more money per month than those with four or fewer services. A report from the CNMC reveals
A new 400Gbps single-carrier based technology solution to transmit vast streams of data over core fibre-optic networks, the ‘motorways’ of the Internet, has been developed by researchers at the BT Labs in Adastral Park, Ipswich. BT is demonstrating the optical network technology at its Innovation Week 2017 event at Adastral Park which runs from 12th […]
The number of pay-TV subscribers in Portugal reached 3.7 million in the first quarter of 2017, a growth of 135,000 subscribers (3.8 per cent) year-on-year. According to the National Communications Authority (Anacom), the growth is mainly due to the increased popularity of fibre optic-based offers, which saw subscriber numbers rise by 6.3 per cent on […]
Gigabit speeds are around the corner for eligible homes and businesses in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and the Gold Coast. The news comes as a result of Australia’s national broadband network operator nbn’s trials of DOCSIS 3.1 technology on its Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC) network – previously Telstra’s pay-TV cable. In lab trials of […]
Responding to competitive challenges, Danish TV and Internet service provider Stofa is to undertake what CEO Ole Fruekilde describes as it biggest-ever project centring on a full technology migration across all Stofa’s sites in Denmark. It has selected ARRIS to transform its cable broadband network to deliver gigabit broadband speeds and new, enhanced services including […]
Thomas Braun, President, ANGA Association of German Cable Operators, has called on German politicians to adopt a policy supporting gigabit speed networks. In at opening address an ANGA COM in Cologne, Braun noted that German cable operators were already deploying networks of 400 Mbps, and that with optical fibre, this became a gigabit infrastructure very […]
Orange and Vitis have signed an agreement that makes movies and TV channels from Orange Cinema Series (OCS) available on LA FIBRE videofutur, a full FTTH offering for public networks. From June 1st, subscribers to LA FIBRE videofutur will have access to the four OCS linear channels, as well as to their catch-up and on-the-go […]