Fixed communication services revenue in Japan is forevcast to grow marginally from $25.4 billion (€23.3bn) in 2024 to $26.6 billion in 2029, maintaining a sluggish CAGR of 0.9 per cent. The decline in fixed voice services will continue, while broadband growth remains moderate, driven by increasing fibre adoption but offset by falling cable and xDSL […]
Openreach has announced the pricing and commercial terms for its new symmetric 1Gbps broadband FTTP speed tier service – due to launch on April 1st. The new service will be available at premises, including both homes and businesses, where FTTP has been built under its £800 million partnership with the Government’s Project Gigabit programme – […]
CityFibre has reported record revenues and its first year of profitability. The UK fibre broadband player delivered a record 34 per cent increase in revenue to £134 million in 2024. Consumer revenues increased by 73 per cent, and djusted EBITDA stood at £5 million. The company added over 181,000 net new customers, reaching 518,000 total […]
The joint-venture between Telefónica and Vodafone to provide combined fibre optic services in Spain will operate under the new brand Fiberpass. The former operations director at Telefonica, Pablo Ledesma, will be the CEO of the company that will cover some 3.5 million homes. Telefónica is the largest shareholder in Fiberpass with a 63 per cent […]
Point Topic has provided an update on fixed broadband availability in the UK, tracking the progress between the end of 2023 and 2024. The analysis is based on the Thinkpoint broadband availability dataset which includes 1.7 million postcodes. At the end of 2024, the FTTP coverage was 72.9 per cent of the UK total premises, […]
UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach and Nokia have successfully tested the UK’s first live 50 Gigabits per second (Gbps) broadband connection. The technology promises to deliver speeds twenty times faster than the fastest broadband services available today in UK. During a field test conducted from a residential property in Ipswich, the new Nokia ’50G PON’ […]
Nokia has announced that StarHub has successfully completed its nationwide rollout of its XGS-PON network, connecting hundreds of thousands of homes across Singapore to 10 Gbps internet speeds. The upgraded broadband network provides immediate access to additional broadband capacity needed to support bandwidth-hungry applications such as AI, immersive gaming and advanced security. StarHub will use […]
The Hebridean islands’ first ultrafast broadband connections are now live in a transformative upgrade by Openreach engineers for the Scottish Government’s ‘Reaching 100% (R100)’ programme. For years, connectivity on the islands has been a challenge due to their location and dispersed populations. Now, the first households and businesses on Tiree can access some of the […]
Device vendors recently advanced the adoption of high-speed fibre connectivity technologies at a Broadband Forum ‘Plugfest’ event hosted by CableLabs in Louisville, Colorado. The Plugfest brought together leading companies from the fibre sector to test the readiness of their XGS-PON and 25GS-PON technologies and ensure the interoperability of fibre products connecting homes to broadband service […]
FullFibre, a wholesale full fibre network provider along with its in-house ISP retail company, BeFibre, and Zzoomm, a growing full fibre business operator, have agreed to merge. The enlarged group will have a large full fibre footprint with some 600,000 properties ready for service and over 65,000 customers. The merged business will seek to accelerate […]