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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

Spain: Orange partners Ezentis for FTTH

Orange Spain has agreed a partnership with Group Ezentis to undertake the installation and deployment of optic fibre and its maintenance for a two year period for a total of €14 million. Following the agreement, Ezentis will be responsible for the installation of FTTH network and the breakdown service. The deal has come two days […]

March 5, 2021From David Del Valle in Madrid

Telefónica creates FTTH giant in Brazil

Spain’s Telefonica has allied with the Canadian Fund Caisse de Depot et placement du Québec (CDPQ) to set up FiBrasil, an optic fibre giant that wull deploy and operate a FTTH network in Brazil, with access to all telco operators in the country. Both partners will hold a 50 per cent stake in the new […]

March 3, 2021From David Del Valle in Madrid

Report: Fibre to drive Australia’s fixed broadband revenue

The total fixed communications services revenue in Australia is expected to increase at a sluggish compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 0.7 per cent from $9.9 billion in 2020 to $10.2 billion in 2025, supported by the growth in fixed broadband segment, according to GlobalData, the data and analytics company. An analysis of GlobalData’s Australia […]

March 1, 2021

Report: Europe lags on key digital metrics

At a time in which the EU is striving for digital sovereignty, fresh data shows that Europe is trailing global peers on key network roll-out and digital investment metrics, including on 5G, AI and network investment. Despite this, Europe shows progress with respect to last year, with more people covered

February 1, 2021

Orange Concessions boost for French FTTH

Dominant French multiplay telco Orange has entered into an exclusivity agreement with La Banque des Territoires (Caisse des Dépôts), CNP Assurances and EDF Invest for the sale of a 50 per cent equity interest and co-control of fibre-optic unit Orange Concessions. With 23 public initiative networks (PIN) representing over 4.5 million built or to-be-built plugs, […]

January 25, 2021

MásMóvil surpasses 2m broadband subs

MásMóvil, the #4 telco in Spain, has reached over 2 million fixed broadband subscribers in just over four years, a record time to achieve that goal in the country. More than 90 per cent of the total, some 1.8 million, are FTTH customers with the company significantly capturing a lot of FTTH subscribers in the […]

January 25, 2021From David Del Valle in Madrid

Truespeed predictions 2021

Henry West, Truespeed Commercial Director, has offered his predictions for 2021: A spotlight on bandwidth Ask anyone in the WFH gang about connectivity and they will impress on you the importance of fast, reliable broadband. Home workers’ struggles with spinning wheels and dropped video calls has led to a surge of interest in what infrastructure […]

January 5, 2021

Study: Adding spare capacity to FTTH reduces 5G costs

The FTTH Council has revealed the results of its second study aimed at quantifying the potential cost savings which could be made by building converged 5G-fibre networks. It demonstrates that deploying FTTH today with sufficient spare capacity will result in significant savings tomorrow for the rollout of 5G networks. “Last year’s study clearly highlighted the […]

December 4, 2020