fibre-to-the-home
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Switzerland’s Competition Comission (COMCO) has fined Swisscom CHF 18 million ($19 million) for what it deems unlawful conduct in Swisscom’s optical fibre expansion. -
FTTH broadband is often touted as a faster and more reliable alternative to standard fibre, sometimes offering speeds around 30 times faster.
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Digi Communications is reportedly in advanced negotiations to sell its fibre-to-the-home network to a consortium led by Macquarie Capital.
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Telkom, South Africa’s incumbent operator, wants to sell a minority stake in Openserve, its wholesale last-mile fibre unit.
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The North Pole has now got fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) thanks to Alaska Communications, but not the North Pole that everyone understands by the term.
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Namibian telecom operator Mobile Telecommunications limited (MTC) has deployed 475km of fibre optic backbone for its telecom sites in the framework of a N$100 million project that will reduce congestion across its network.
Forthcoming events
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The biggest shareholder in mobile operator Veon is to spend £1 billion building a fibre network in two rural English counties.
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Nokia has reached the 100-customer milestone for the Quillion chipset-based broadband solutions used in next-generation fibre and copper telecommunication networks.
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BT is looking for external parties to form joint ventures to expand the fibre network being built by its Openreach last-mile subsidiary.
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Italy appears to be moving away from the idea of a full-blown merger of its fibre infrastructure, led in part by former Vodafone chief Vittorio Colao, who wants to retain competition.
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Spanish broadband operator MásMóvil has sold the rest of its fibre infrastructure to the same trio of private equity investors that previously bought its urban fibre network.
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The number of UK households without an internet connection has almost halved in the year since the pandemic began.
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A new wholesale network will provide internet access to El Salvador’s 1.2 million students, plus health services, and connect retail telcos. Alan Burkitt-Gray talks to Uwe Martinz, the man in charge of the project
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Neos Networks has launched its new Ethernet over FTTx (EoFTTx) service.
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ESG funds – equities and bonds that focus on environmental, social and governance factors – should be leveraged to provide a solution for South Africa's digital divide.
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Aqua Comms is now owned by Digital 9 Infrastructure, a new company that successfully raised £300 million in a share offering last month.
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Swisscom’s Fastweb and investment company KKR have both taken their stakes in FiberCop, the next stage in the long-running project to build a national Italian fibre company.
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MetroFibre Networx of South Africa has borrowed 2.5 billion rand (US$169 million) to expand its open-access fibre network across the country.
