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Harmonic boosts Otelco broadband speeds

Harmonic has announced that US cable operator Otelco is delivering gigabit speeds and superior broadband experience to rural subscribers with Harmonic’s industry-leading CableOS Cloud-Native Core Platform and CableOS Central analytics service. Benefiting from Harmonic’s pioneering virtualized cable access and distributed access architecture (DAA) solutions, and upgrading to DOCSIS 3.1, Otelco is delivering tenfold-faster broadband speeds […]

April 29, 2021

FTTH Conference 2021 goes virtual

With just over five months to go to the planned FTTH Conference 2021 in Berlin, it remains unclear when, and in what form, large international conferences and exhibitions will be permitted to run. Following consultation with multiple stakeholders, the FTTH Council Europe said it has reached the conclusion that the probability of being able to […]

April 27, 2021

Spain: FTTH reaches 11.7m lines

FTTH continues its rapid expansion in Spain adding 107,651 lines in February to reach a total of 11.7 million lines. In one year, the FTTH market has gained 1.3 million lines, according to latest CNMC data, versus a 0.7 million loss of DSL lines. Overall, 81.8 per cent of FTTH lines belonged to the three […]

April 16, 2021From David Del Valle in Madrid

Poland: Orange, APG partner for FTTH deployment

Orange Polska has announced the creation of a FiberCo co-owned (50-50) with APG. This joint venture aims to support the rollout of fibre in Poland in areas where access to high-speed broadband infrastructure is limited or inexistent. The FiberCo integrates 2.4 million lines, including 1.7 million households that will be deployed over the next five […]

April 12, 2021

Italy: PostePay launches FTTH

Italy’s national Post Office says its digital services arm, PostePay, will launch FTTH services later this year. The company is already the country’s largest MVNO (by subscribers) via its PosteMobile unit, which has more than 4.3 million customers. The plan is to offer converged fixed-mobile services and expand its customer base to 5.1 million by […]

March 22, 2021

Ofcom approves BT fibre broadband to 20m homes

Ofcom has published its statement on the Wholesale Fixed Telecoms Market Review (WFTMR) that sets out how Ofcom will regulate telecom fixed access services for the five years from April 1st. The statement sets out how the media regulator will stimulate next generation Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) broadband investment across the UK. Dame Melanie […]

March 18, 2021

Singapore: Steady growth in multiplay service revenue

Steady rise in household penetration of multiplay service bundles and increase in average monthly household spending on tripleplay and quadplay services are set to drive the multiplay service revenue in Singapore at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7 per cent from $1.09 billion in 2020 to $1.53 billion in 2025, according to GlobalData, […]

March 17, 2021

Portuguese pay-TV penetration rate reaches 93%

The pay-TV penetration rate in Portugal reached 93.2 per cent at the end of 2020, accounting for a 5.4 per cent growth on the previous year. According to figures published by the National Communications Authority (Anacom), 4.2 million Portuguese subscribed to pay-TV services, or 183,000 (+4 per cent) more than in 2019. FTTH now accounts […]

March 12, 2021From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Airband delivers ultrafast broadband to Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire County Council has announced that Airband’s ultrafast fibre network in Oxfordshire is live in Thame. Homes and businesses in Thame will be now have access to some of the fastest broadband speeds in the UK. Councillor Ian Corkin, Oxfordshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for Business, Partnerships and Digital Infrastructure, said: “I’m delighted that Thame […]

March 11, 2021

France: Record FTTH deployment progress

French comms regulator Arcep’s ‘scoreboard’ for the fixed broadband and superfast broadband market in France as of the end of December 2020 was marked by record progress in Fibre to the Home (FTTH) deployment, while adoption rates also ended the year on a record high. SUBSCRIPTIONS: New record increase in the number of FTTH subscriptions […]

March 8, 2021By Colin Mann