UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a further 79 new exchange locations, covering more than 900k premises across the UK, where the business plans to halt the sale of traditional copper-based phone and broadband services to encourage people to upgrade to new digital services over an ultrafast Full Fibre connection. The business is giving […]
Comcast and Charter Communications have announced a partnership with chipmaker Broadcom to develop a new silicon standard capable of delivering downstream speeds of up to 25Gbs over cable’s traditional hybrid fibre-coax nets. Outlining their collaboration at SCTE TechExpo in Atlanta, the companies billed the standard as the launch of ‘DOCSIS 5.0’ — a new version […]
With connectivity and technology being front and centre for the new College of Commissioners and with the Draghi report calling for a major policy reform in telecoms, trade body Connect Europe has unveiled its policy agenda ‘Europe’s Digital Choice’, which it describes as an “ambitious” plan proposing eight policy steps to build a more Connected, […]
Fibre service providers have been given a boost in their pursuit of more energy-efficient networks that can unlock significant power savings thanks to a new project launched by Broadband Forum. Initially driven by BT Group, Orange, Calix, Futurewei, Huawei, and Nokia, the project will seek to lower energy consumption when accessing the internet. The project […]
Freedom Fibre, the UK alternative fibre network provider, has announced the appointment of Nathan Vautier as its new Chief Executive Officer. Vautier succeeds founder Neil McArthur, who will transition into a strategic role while continuing to serve on the company’s board. McArthur commented: “After nearly 30 years in the telecoms sector it’s time I stepped […]
Consumers must be told in clear terms about the technology that underpins their broadband service when signing up to a new deal, under new Ofcom guidance for providers that comes into force today [September 16th]. Full-fibre networks are currently being deployed at pace, meaning customers are increasingly able to choose from a range of different […]
MasOrange and Telefónica have signed a deal to share fibre optic networks in Spain, whereby the former will have access to 3.5 million homes with no need to deploy more networks as it will reach a total of 17 million households across the country. In exchange , MasOrange will pay Telefónica 50 per cent of […]
Movistar and Vodafone have signed a MoU to renew their fibre optic agreement (initially signed in 2017) whereby the latter will be able to continue using the Movistar network to provide services across Spain. The deal comes two months after both companies had agreed to set up a joint-venture with 3.5 million FTTH homes and […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has published its latest monitoring report on digital infrastructure provider Openreach’s independence. Since 2018, Openreach has been legally separated from BT and Ofcom has imposed rules on the company designed to support competition and investment in faster networks. In that time, availability of full-fibre broadband in the UK has increased from […]
Heights Telecom, a provider of telecommunications solutions to global communications service providers (CSPs), has announced a strategic partnership with full fibre broadband supplier, BeFibre, the retail arm of the alternative network, FullFibre. The partnership allows BeFibre to offer Multi-Gig Wi-Fi 6 Router and Extenders that will deliver enhanced internet service delivery for its broad customer […]