BT today announced a further wave of investment to help the UK remain the leading digital nation in the G20. Its Openreach and EE businesses will between them spend around six billion pounds in capital expenditure over the next three years in the first phase of a plan to extend superfast broadband and 4G coverage beyond 95 per cent of the country by 2020.
The number of FTTH subscribers in the Netherlands passed the milestone of 1 million in March, according to the Telecompaper Dutch FTTH Database. While the roll-out of FTTH networks has slowed in the past year, the number of users continues to grow, with an increase of around 200,000 in the past year.
According to research by African Bandwidth Maps, expansion of fibre networks has brought dozens of new towns, cities and countries within the reach of high capacity networks for the first time. In the last five years, over 150 million more Africans have become within reach of fibre networks.
The FTTH Council Europe and its research partner IDATE revealed this week at the council’s annual FTTH Conference in Luxembourg that the number of fiber to the home (FTTH) and fiber to the building (FTTB) subscribers in Europe increased by 19% over the first nine months of 2015. In addition, three new countries reached the 1% fiber penetration threshold.
Fibre drives broadband market growth in Spain, according to new statistic from the regulator; mobile market contracts.
GPONDoctor scoop announced today that it has reached an agreement with TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION to acquire its Spin off WYZARTEL SL a highly reputed company in the field of Fibre to the Home Test equipment and consultancy services. WYZARTEL SL will become an integral part of GPONDoctor scoop which will strengthen its position in the Fibre to the Home market.
The European Union’s regulatory framework for electronic communications is a series of rules that apply throughout the EU Member States. These rules are designed to encourage competition, improve the functioning of the market and guarantee basic user rights. But as digital technologies continue to change at an ever-increasing pace, this framework is in need of an overhaul.
Google Fiber says it has “invited” Chicago and Los Angeles to discuss bringing the company’s gigabit broadband services to their cities. Adding the two cities – the largest with which Google Fiber has engaged so far – brings to 18 the number of markets Google Fiber is active at some level. However, it is actually supplying services in parts of three of them – Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas), Austin, TX, and Provo, UT.
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INDIANAPOLIS – CIRCA OCTOBER 2015: AT&T Indianapolis Headquarters. AT&T Inc. is an American Telecommunications Corporation
AT&T says it plans to expand the markets for its gigabit broadband AT&T GigaPower service to at least parts of 38 new metro markets. The expansion of its fiber to the premises (FTTP) footprint will bring the number of metro markets where it offers the service to 56.
Spanish eyes are currently smiling on record growth in the fiber to the home (FTTH) market, as operators compete to roll out super-fast broadband across a country that has previously been slow to embrace new technology.
