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.
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KPN has attracted the biggest pension fund in the Netherlands to take a 50% stake in its open-access rural fibre business at a cost of €440 million.
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Fibre operators in the UK have welcomed today’s statement by the telecoms regulator, Ofcom, on its plans for the fixed wholesale market.
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Carlo Filangieri, the head of wholesale markets at TIM, is to be the CEO of Italy’s last-mile fibre business, FiberCop.
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The UK's first post-Brexit budget has seen the country step away from specific targets around gigabit broadband coverage and instead focus on the concept of the "digital economy".
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UK cable company Virgin Media is trying out technology that could deliver 400Gbps on a single fibre to a range of customers.
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Openreach is using Viavi's Optical Network Monitoring System (ONMSi) for its full fibre broadband deployment as its build programme reaches 42,000 premises every week.
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TIM's shares are trading 8% higher today following the release of the telco's Q4 and FY2020 financial results, themselves bolstered by a two-year transformation project.
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South African fibre operator Vox Telecom is to expand its fibre network beyond the major cities of the country.
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Engineers at Vodafone’s Eschborn lab in Germany have transmitted data down a fibre on a single wavelength at 100Gbps — 40 times faster than most optical networks achieve today.
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Two Alaskan towns with a total population of 7,100 are to get gigabit fibre broadband after Quintillion expands its coastal network.
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Ireland’s fibre-based €3 billion wholesale national rural broadband project has connected its first home — a family in Cork, close to the country’s south coast.
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Italian electricity company Enel has agreed that it will sell its stake in Open Fiber for €2.65 billion to Australian investor Macquarie.
