UK fibre builder CityFibre commissioned some research that ‘identified over £38b billion in potential economic benefits’ thanks to its full fibre rollout to 285 UK cities, towns and villages.
UK fibre infrastructure providers Openreach and Hyperoptic have announced an extension of their deployment plans to new locations.
French telecoms group Orange had several of its offices visited by French antirust officials recently but it’s not clear why.
Owners of broadband provider TalkTalk have apparently have received ‘tentative approaches’ about a sale worth £3 billion, with Vodafone and Sky among the suitors.
Price comparison site Cable.co.uk has released a report listing what it reckons are the cheapest and most expensive places to buy broadband across the world.
The UK Government has laid out its pledge to ensure that a third of premises have fast fibre broadband by 2025.
Italian operator group TIM has formally agreed to begin talks with CDP with a view to defining the terms of a merger with Open Fiber by the end of April.
UK Digital Secretary Nadine Dorries has written to BT, Virgin Media O2, KCom and others to ask them to ‘outline plans for promoting low-cost social tariffs’ for people on benefits.
Finish kit vendor Nokia and Japanese MNO Rakuten have demonstrated a live 1Tbps per channel transmission, which they claim represents a speed increase of 500% on Rakuten’s existing fibre network.
ISP Zen Internet has signed a deal to extend its services to 285 cities, towns and villages across full fibre infrastructure firm CityFibre’s UK network.
BT is putting its digital voice service rollout on ice due to the fact it caused more disruption to customers than the telco had anticipated.
Nokia has bagged a significant deal involving Vodafone’s 143 million European fixed broadband customers.
CityFibre has raised £1.425 billion in capital in the past six months and that’s probably just as well, given how much the firm is spending on fibre rollout.
The Indian government is reportedly planning to further consolidate its alphabet soup of state-owned operators.
Verizon has won contracts from the US Department of Defense (DoD) worth a total of close to US$1 billion, including a deal to switch the Pentagon from copper to IP.
Uniti Group has confirmed that a group of funds led by HRL Morrison & Co has tabled a takeover bid worth in excess of A$3 billion.
Ahead of the return of the telecoms industry’s biggest trade show, analyst firm Omdia has given some collective thought to what we might end up chatting about there.
The UK wants to introduce further laws to ensure our telecoms sector does exactly what it’s ordered to do by US sanctions against Huawei.
Virgin Media O2 and owners Liberty Global and Telefonica have confirmed they are in discussions with a number of potential financial partners regarding a new fibre joint venture.
UK telco VMO2 has issued an announcement apparently designed to improve its standing in the country’s capital.
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