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Plume, Sagemcom support Deutsche Glasfaser router launch

German fibre service provider Deutsche Glasfaser is collaborating with personalised smart services specialist Plume to introduce what is claimed to be the country’s first fully cloud-optimised WiFi 6E fibre router. The product solution combines Plume’s Consumer Experience Management Platform and HomePass Smart Home Services suite, which is already available to Deutsche Glasfaser’s subscribers, leverages the […]

May 5, 2022By Colin Mann

Subtonomy adds broadband network support

Customer and network experience platform provider Subtonomy has added broadband network support to its Network Experience Platform. This means CSPs can now benefit from a fully-convergent view of the network experience they are providing to individual customers in real-time – enabling them to monitor experience efficiently, fix faults proactively, meet customer service expectations, control costs […]

May 4, 2022By Colin Mann

Europe’s telcos call for big tech network cost contribution

Currently, tech giants do not contribute a fair share to the deployment of telecom networks, while generating network-related costs of tens of billion euros, notes telecoms trade body ETNO, who suggests this weakens Europe’s capacity to swiftly achieve connectivity targets. According to a report, Europe’s internet ecosystem: socio-economic benefits of a fairer balance between tech […]

May 3, 2022By Colin Mann

Community Fibre passes 500k London homes

Community Fibre, London’s full fibre broadband provider can now take orders from 500,000 London homes and 116,000 businesses. Community Fibre is commitmed to offering 2.2 million homes and businesses its full fibre multi-gigabit capable broadband by the end of 2024. In support of its expansion plans, Community Fibre has secured an additional £100 milliom facility […]

May 3, 2022

Canada’s Rogers cracks 8 Gb/s

Canadian technology and cable giant Rogers Communications has released its Q1 financials. As part of the release they said that tests and consumer trials have successfully confirmed their ability to deliver 8 Gigabits per second symmetrical data transfer on its fibre network. The tests more than doubled the fastest published Internet speeds of any major […]

April 22, 2022By Chris Forrester

Openreach Full Fibre rollout tops 7m homes

UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has now built ultra-fast, ultra-reliable Full Fibre broadband to more than seven million homes and businesses across the UK, including more than two million in the hardest to reach ‘final third’ of the country. Having already built the new technology to more than a quarter of its target footprint, Openreach […]

April 14, 2022By Colin Mann

Netomnia, YouFibre secure further £295m funding

Netomnia, a provider of full fibre broadband infrastructure, and internet service provider YouFibre have secured £295 million in new funding led by DigitalBridge Investment Management, the investment management platform of DigitalBridge Group. DigitalBridge’s equity investment will come alongside follow-on commitments from existing shareholders Soho Square Capital and Advencap Limited. Founded by CEO Jeremy Chelot, who […]

April 11, 2022

Sky Broadband launches Gigafast package

Sky Broadband has launched its new full fibre broadband package, Gigafast – offering speeds of 900 Mb/s. The new package, which is delivered only through FTTP (Fibre to the Premises), is 25x faster than the average speed of Sky’s Superfast 35 package and offers a high-standard Speed Guarantee of 600 Mb/s. Available to new and […]

April 6, 2022

MásMóvil from loss to €189m profit; debt surges

Awaiting the merger with Orange to become the largest operator in Spain in terms of customers, MásMóvil has reported a net profit of €189 million versus €77 million losses in 2020 and €93 million in 2019. The company increased revenues by 28 per cent to €2.46 billion thanks to Euskaltel, with fourth quarter revenues reaching […]

April 5, 2022From David Del Valle in Madrid

Forecast: Fibre to dominate APAC broadband services

Fixed communications service revenue in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is set to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.7 per cent to reach $406.2 billion (€364.4bn) in 2026, supported by the growing fixed broadband service adoption, particularly in the emerging markets of the region, forecasts GlobalData, a data and analytics company. An […]

March 30, 2022