After years of fibre inactivity across much of Western Europe, renewed efforts are emerging that will help plug the gap between the fibre haves and have-nots, according to a report from Kagan, the TMT arm of S&P Global Market Intelligence “The region’s broadband markets are approaching saturation on copper lines and operators are increasingly competing […]
The Isle of Man’s Department for Enterprise has released a National Telecommunications Strategy which will be presented to the island’s legislative body Tynwald later in October 2018. The strategy, based over six key themes and 22 actions, sets to position the Isle of Man at the forefront of telecoms innovation, with a telecommunications infrastructure that […]
Nearly 600,000 New Zealand homes and businesses have high-speed fibre-optic Internet connections, a 54 per cent increase from 2017, according to findings from Stats NZ. “Through Ultra-Fast Broadband fibre connections, more New Zealanders are now able to stream movies, play video games, and video-call one another in high-definition, without time lags or buffering,” noted business […]
Viavi Solutions has released the results of a global study that examines the rise of parallel optics and multi-fibre connectivity in service provider networks, enterprises and data centres. According to the VIAVI 2018 MPO study, deployment of ribbon fibre and multi-fibre push on (MPO) connectors is expected to grow by more than 20 per cent […]
FTTH in Spain continues to grow with almost 154,000 lines added in June to hit 7.6 million customers, according to figures from regulatory body CNMC. FTTH already represents 50 per cent of the total broadband fixed market in the country with 14.57 million. Movistar leads the FTTH market with 3.7 million lines, 48.4 per cent […]
Vodafone and the Spain’s fourth largest telco MasMovil have reached an agreement to share FTTH networks covering some 1.9 million households in the country. With the deal Vodafone will add up to 1 million FTTH homes and will gain access to 100,000 homes currently not covered by its own network and shared infrastructure. As of […]
Spanish telco Telefónica is replicating Spain’s FTTH model with a massive deployment of networks in Brazil. The company already covers 100 cities with plans to extend the network to 20 cities more later in the year. Telefónica is distributing some 100 HD TV channels among them Cartoon Network Ja!, Discovery Kids ON, Esporte Interativo Plus, […]
Local businesses in areas covered by the UK Government’s rollout of superfast broadband have seen a combined £9 billion (€10.05bn) increase in turnover since the boost to their broadband speed, new figures have revealed. The report, The Evaluation of the Economic Impact and Public Value of the Superfast Broadband Programme, is an independent assessment of […]
UK gigabit broadband provider Hyperoptic has completed a debt raise of one quarter of a billion pounds (€280m) from eight leading international banks to extend its full fibre optic network to 50 towns and cities across the country by 2019. It claims this is the largest single investment in the UK for a full fibre […]
Gigabit Internet is now available to 301 million people across 49 countries, according to the latest data in the Gigabit Monitor from VIAVI Solutions. The volume of gigabit Internet deployments has increased by 38 per cent since May 2017. This means that 4.2 per cent of the global population now has gigabit internet available to […]