Deutsche Telekom ramps up FTTH ambitions with Telefónica wholesale deal
Deutsche Telekom has pledged to accelerate its fibre rollout after reaching a wholesale FTTH deal with rival Telefónica.
Deutsche Telekom has pledged to accelerate its fibre rollout after reaching a wholesale FTTH deal with rival Telefónica.
Only a matter of days after Sky Italia expanded its offering, Iliad has inked a broadband wholesale agreement with Open Fiber to drive towards the convergence dream.
New data from the FTTH Council Europe points to promising trends for fibre deployment, but a closer look at the figures suggest demand is not quite as high as some would imagine.
With TalkTalk shareholders approving the sale of FibreNation to CityFibre for £200 million, the wholesale infrastructure challenger has increased its rollout target to 8 million premises.
Although Italian networks seem to be holding-up under the increased traffic, data from Opensignal and MedUX suggests there has been material levels of service degradation.
Saudi Arabian regulator, Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), has managed to get all telcos on the same page to join an open access network initiative.
Former-Foreign Secretary and the favourite to be the UK’s next Prime Minister Boris Johnson has undercut DCMS and Ofcom commitment for full-fibre by eight-years.
With only 20% of European customers adopting broadband services over 100 Mbps, the European Commission is falling behind its own targets with six months to go.
Reliance Jio owner Mukesh Ambani has stated India will be fully-4G by 2020, and is setting his eyes on the 5G euphoria already.
Open Fiber has raised €3.5 billion from a pool of commercial banks, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and the European Investment Bank (EIB) to fuel the firms FTTH push across Italy.
Ofcom has released the Spring edition of its Connected Nations report, revealing there are now more UK consumers who have access to FTTH connectivity than those who struggle to get a 10 Mbps connection.
A report has emerged from City Hall in San Francisco which assesses the final details for the city to build its own fibre network, passing 100% of homes and businesses, for $1.9 billion.
The UK government has announced yet another scheme designed to boost fibre penetration but this one might actually be useful.
It’s easy to get distracted by the whole Vivendi/TIM saga, but Iliad is another French business looking towards the land of pizzas, Vespas and slicked back hair for future fortunes.
A couple of weeks back Vodafone announced it would be bringing full-fibre broadband to Milton Keynes as part of broad assault on the broadband scene and now the second gigabit city has been named – Aberdeen.
Openreach, the UK’s dominant fixed-line wholesaler, has vowed to ramp up its fibre-to-the-premises roll-out to hit three million premises by the end of 2020.
A couple of weeks ago Vodafone and CityFibre announced Milton Keynes was going to be first recipient of gigabit-capable full-fibre broadband, and we think we know where they are going next.
Deutsche Telekom has outlined its fibre-to-the-home ambitions, with 40,000km of optical fibre to be laid this year.
UK operator Vodafone has reminded Openreach that it’s not the only fibre game in town by funding CityFibre’s network expansion in return for consumer broadband exclusivity.
The first full day of Broadband World Forum 2017 saw both operator and vendor keynote speakers explore strategies for achieving ubiquitous gigabit connectivity.
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