South Africa’s MultiChoice is going after South Africa’s fibre-based users, and is launching an aggressive campaign to win potential customers seeking uncapped fibre access. It is offering a linked fibre service plus DStv pay-TV bundles at what are seen as ‘deeply discounted’ prices. DStv is currently promoting two options: The first offers a 25 MB/s […]

Dataxis estimates that in the next decade, broadband services will be available in 75 per cent of homes in Latin America. The market will continue growing, but it is also expected to evolve: fibre will remain the dominant technology because it has been growing, following with new deployments, and because it also constitutes the upgrade […]

The UK is expected to grant extraordinary status to European fibre engineers in a bid to entice them to work in the UK. They are needed for Project Gigabit and the recruitment of euro cablers has been sanctioned in the budget of the Gigabit Infrastructure Subsidy (GIS) programme. Recruitment from other EU countries is no […]

The US broadband landscape is in a state of shock: the two biggest cable operators have experienced a decrease in their number of broadband subscribers, reports Dataxis. According to their latest financial results for the second quarter of 2022, Comcast and Charter lost 10,000 and 40,000 subscribers respectively. If those losses are relatively negligible in […]

ANGA COM, Europe’s leading Exhibition and Conference for Broadband, Television & Online, has activated the registration for exhibitors on its website. From now on, the booking of exhibition space, advertising and sponsoring is possible on the ANGA COM website. In 2023, ANGA COM will take place from 23 to 25 May in Cologne/Germany.With more than […]

Spain’s largest telcos – Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone – have thrown themselves into another price fight, this time over FTTH 1Gbps. Telefónica is offering 1Gbps fibre for €29.90 a month for nine months, including installation, router, phone-line fee and with unlimited calls. After that period, the price will be €50 a month. Vodafone is pitching […]

Portugal added 133,000 new subscribers in the first half of 2022 (+3 per cent), compared to the same period last year, taking the total to 4.4 million, accounting for a 94.8 per cent penetration rate. However, the National Communications Authority (Anacom) points out that the growth was lower than in previous years – 3.5 per […]

Liberty Networks Germany, a joint venture (JV) between Liberty Global Ventures, the investment arm of Liberty Global and InfraVia Capital Partners, starts construction this week on a new full-fibre network in Germany. Launched in 2021, Liberty Networks Germany will connect households and municipalities in Germany to state-of-the-art fibre optic networks operating under the new ‘helloFiber’ […]

Orange Spain saw its revenues fall by 4.3 per cent to €2.26 billion in the first half of the year, albeit less than the 5.1 per cent reduction the same period in 2021. By quarters, the second, was better than the first with a revenues fall of 4 per cent versus 4.6 per cent until […]

Telefónica has sold 13 per cent of its rural FTTH network to its subsidiary (with a share of 55 per cent) BlueVia Fibra – that operates along with Vauban Infrastructure Partners/Credit Agricole Assurances, with a share of 45 per cent. BlueVia, with a value of €2.5 billion, has plans to cover 3.5 million homes with […]