Despite a nine per cent cut in its €10 billion revenues, Telefónica managed to increase its operating profit by 118.3 per cnt to €886 million in the first quarter of the year versus the same period last year. The Spanish telco also reached 25.7 million FTTH connections in the country, up 432,000 year-on-year, and 137.1 […]
More than one in five UK homes can now access faster, full-fibre broadband, according to new figures published by comms regulator Ofcom. Ofcom’s latest Connected Nations data highlights broadband and mobile coverage across the UK and its nations. As of January 2021, around six million UK homes (21 per cent) could get full-fibre broadband – […]
The total number of homes passed with Fibre to the Home (FTTH) and Fibre to the Building (FTTB) in the EU39 reached nearly 182.6 million homes in September 2020, compared to 172 million in September 2019. The main movers in terms of homes passed in absolute numbers are France (+4.6 million), Italy (+2.8 million), Germany […]
Increasing the speed of roll-out of fibre broadband across member states is a vital component to drive a greener, more competitive economy as Europe gears up for a post pandemic recovery, according to Michel Van Bellinghen, Chairman 2021 of BEREC (Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications). Delivering a keynote speech during the online ‘A […]
MásMóvil, the fourth largest telco in Spain, has sold part of its rural FTTH network to local operator Onivia in an attempt to raise funds to complete Euskaltel’s acquisition. The company received around €400 million for the network that covers 1.1 million households. With the acquisition, for its part, Onivia doubles its presence in Spain […]
So, BT Sport is for sale. Or is looking for strategic partners, etc, etc – all code for “up for sale”. No real surprise. Does it ever work when telcos, or other technology driven organisations, try and run TV companies? Not often. Why did it get in to sport, or indeed TV of any kind? […]
Findings in a report conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) show that the nationwide rollout of Full Fibre broadband could bring up to a million people back into the UK workforce – helping get the economy back on track. Previous Cebr research, commissioned by digital infrastructure Openreach, suggested that as many […]
Data from research firm Point Topic indicate that the collective efforts of altnets and challenger ISPs could see nearly 1 million additional broadband customers using an altnet or challenger ISP by the end of 2025, increasing market share from 12 per cent currently to 14.5 per cent or 3.75 million customers. The data, commissioned by […]
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 […]
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 […]