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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London wholesale fibre company G.Network has raised over £1 billion in equity and loans to expand its network.
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The west African state of Niger is to spend €100 million building a high-speed internet connection to 2,111 villages.
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Deutsche Telekom has set up what it calls a Fiber Factory in order to speed up the process of connecting homes and businesses across Germany to 2 million homes a year.
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The state of Lagos in Nigeria plans to complete a project to build a 6,000km fibre network in 2021, the state government has announced.
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The FTTH Council Europe has called for action on the advertising practices of fibre connectivity providers.
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Community Fibre, Voneus and CommScope are just some of the network operators to have voiced concern about changes to the UK’s National Infrastructure Strategy.
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Members of the National Cable Television Cooperative are now able to leverage ADTRAN’s broadband access portfolio.
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South African operator Telkom has signed up with a last-mile fibre operator that is competing with its own subsidiary, Openserve.
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The UK regulator has changed the way it plans to calculate costs for duct-sharing, following an intervention from Openreach and its owner.
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London-based telco Community Fibre is to start offering symmetric 3Gbps direct connections to customers’ homes across most of its network.
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After four years with Sunrise in Switzerland, Olaf Swantee is now heading a company with an ambitious target to fibre up London. Alan Burkitt-Gray asks him about his vision
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A UK thinktank has poured cold water on the British government’s aspirations to achieve nationwide gigabit broadband coverage by 2025.
