UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has hit its first target of making Full Fibre broadband technology available to 4.5 million premises across the UK by the end of March 2021, meaning millions of families, businesses and public sector organisations can now order ultrafast, ultra-reliable connectivity from a host of competing Communications Providers. Despite the huge […]

The FTTH Council Europe says it is time to act on misleading advertising after publishing a report, Identifying European Best Practice in Fibre Advertising, which finds that European consumers are confused about the terms used to market broadband access technologies, and find it difficult to identify which networks provide the best performance. Consumers often think […]

The European Commission has opened a public consultation, as part of the review of the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive, to collect views, until March 2nd 2021, on incentivising the rollout of fast broadband networks, including fibre and 5G. The Directive, introduced in 2014, aims to enable fast electronic communications networks for people across the EU […]

US connectivity company DISH has signed agreements with four fibre vendors, Everstream, Segra, Uniti and Zayo, giving it fronthaul and backhaul support to connect its 5G network to sites covering approximately 60 million Americans. With these agreements, DISH gains access to fibre coast-to-coast, providing it the coverage, speed and bandwidth needed to connect its forthcoming […]

UK comms regulator Ofcom has published its annual monitoring report on the progress towards delivering a more independent Openreach, the digital infrastructure subsidiary of dominant telco BT. In 2017, BT notified Ofcom of its voluntary commitments to reform Openreach. This included Openreach becoming a legally separate entity with its own board, management and staff. In […]

New figures published by UK comms regulator Ofcom suggest that full-fibre broadband is now available to over 4.2 million UK homes. The figures are included in Ofcom’s Connected Nations summer update, which provides a summary of broadband and mobile availability across the UK and its nations, as of May 2020. Key findings from the report […]

France’s telecoms regulator Arcep’s annual status report on the French telecoms market shows that in 2019, operators in France invested €500 million more than in 2018, for an overall total (excluding spending on frequencies) of €10.4 billion. Investments in nominal terms have increased by close to 50 per cent in five years. For the third […]