The 2025 Spring General Assembly of the FTTH Council Europe brought together industry leaders and stakeholders from its pan-European membership to set strategic priorities and renew the organisation’s leadership. The General Assembly resulted in the composition of a new Board of Directors, including a new President, and the election of new Committee Chairs. The newly […]

Zen Internet, the independent internet service provider, has entered into a strategic agreement with ITS, the UK’s largest pure-business full fibre network operator. The collaboration sees Zen leveraging ITS’s full fibre footprint to offer business-grade connectivity in new geographies further enhancing Zen’s footprint, providing access to a broader range of business-grade connectivity solutions. The agreement […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) is expected to ask its 23 member governments to fund a new constellation of high-resolution satellites and budgeted at some €1.5 billion. This sum is over and above the normal budget requests which will be discussed at the upcoming November 26th-27th meeting between Ministers and ESA, and where ESA’s budget […]

VodafoneZiggo is expanding its coverage area to over 600,000 additional addresses where the company does not have its own network, but where Delta Fiber’s fibre-optic network is available. This ensures that Ziggo internet and television services will be available virtually across all of the Netherlands by 2026. The partnership with Delta Fiber seeks to address […]

VodafoneThree has announced a strategic wholesale agreement with London’s largest full fibre network, Community Fibre. The partnership will provide access to Community Fibre’s network, allowing VodafoneThree, under the Vodafone brand (as the converged brand in the VodafoneThree portfolio) to offer full fibre broadband to up to 1.3 million homes across the capital, and become London’s […]

CommScope, a specialist in network connectivity, has announced that Liberty Global has chosen CommScope to upgrade several networks for virtualised Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) operation in Europe. Liberty Global, a provider of converged broadband, video and mobile communications services will upgrade the DOCSIS fixed access networks of some of its affiliates, including VodafoneZiggo in The […]

The European Union has “unconditionally” approved the SES purchase of Intelsat (for €3.1 billion plus debt) and joins the UK’s decision to permit the acquisition to go through. Approvals from the US, including permissions to reassign Intelsat’s frequency licences to SES, are still outstanding. “The Commission concluded that the transaction would not raise competition concerns […]

Eutelsat’s new CEO, Jean-François Fallacher, is “racing” to secure fresh funding in order to save OneWeb according to Bloomberg. The constellation of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites is seeking to challenge Elon Musk’s Starlink and the upcoming Jeff Bezos-backed Project Kuiper LEO system. The industry expects Fallacher to be successful. “After all, why would he have […]

AT&T has further cemented its position as the leading fibre Internet provider in the US by achieving its goal of passing more than 30 million consumer and business locations with its fibre broadband network ahead of plan. “We’re proud to now pass more than 30 million fibre locations — halfway to our goal of reaching […]

Viasat, a specialist in satellite communications, has announced Satélite Norte has become the first operator to trial its new Digital Bus solution allowing the major transport operator to provide high-quality passenger experiences using satellite and cellular connectivity. Following a successful test phase the solution is now being used by Satélite Norte vehicles between Goiânia, state […]