The Spanish Administration will invest €525 million over the next four years to extend optic fibre to the entire country with speeds of 300 Mbps. The cabinet meeting has now approved a first tranche of €150 million for 2018 under the PEBA (Plan de Extensión de la Banda Ancha) plan with the remaining €375 million […]
Swiss mobile operator Salt has launched a low-cost fixed-line offering that features super fast broadband speeds as it looks to undercut established rivals. The former Orange subsidiary, acquired by Iliad owner Xavier Niel in 2015, has unveiled what it said was the first ever 10GBps fibre broadband product, alongside TV and fixed telephony services. FTTH […]
Tens of thousands of businesses and homes across the UK are set to benefit from a £67 million (€75.9m) investment in faster Internet connections, the Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced. The Nationwide Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) will provide vouchers worth up to £3000 for a small or medium sized business or £500 to residents […]
Spanish telco Telefónica aims to replicate Spain’s Movistar model in Brazil through its massive deployment of optic fibre. The company intends to invest €6.6 billion in the country between this year and 2020, out of which €622 million will be dedicated to extending optic fibre. The president of Telefónica Brazil, Eduardo Navarro, said that optic […]
More UK homes are set to benefit from ultrafast Internet speeds, after a draft decision by comms regulator Ofcom that it says will will halve the upfront cost of building ‘full-fibre’ broadband networks. Full-fibre broadband is many times faster – and around five times more reliable – than today’s superfast internet services. But it is […]
KEYMILE has identified five prevailing trends on Germany’s telecommunications market: rising bandwidth demand due to new online services, fibre to the home, hybrid solution scenarios, vectoring and partnerships between competitors. In Germany, broadband expansion is progressing slowly but surely. According to information from the industry association VATM, approximately 3.1 million homes were connected to optical […]
At the FTTH Conference 2018, the latest figures of the FTTH Market Panorama prepared by IDATE for the FTTH Council Europe were released. The number of fibre to the home (FTTH) and fibre to the building (FTTB) subscribers in Europe increased by 20.4 per cent since September 2016 with more than 51.6 million FTTH/B subscribers […]
The FTTH Council Europe released the findings of its new study carried out by WIK on the socio-economic benefits of fibre. The study explores further the fact that fibre-based connectivity is transforming and enhancing the way we live, do business and interact. The objective was to identify more precisely the impact of fibre from the […]
FTTH grew by 1.7 million lines in the last year to reach 6.59 million at the end of December, according to CMNC data. In just one month in December FTTH grew by 161,717 lines with DSL and HFC decreasing by 112,690 and 12,625 respectively. Some 51.9 per cent of FTTH corresponds to Movistar with 3.4 […]
Openreach, the infrastructure subsidiary of BT, has launched a ‘fibre first programme’ – which it says starts a potentially huge upgrade of critical UK infrastructure. ‘Potentially’ as it seems to be making its commitment conditional on ‘a supportive public policy and regulatory environment that encourages infrastructure investment.’ It also called for the support of broadband […]