FTTP
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Tillman Fiber has secured US$1 billion in funding for its Florida network expansion, which includes $815 million in committed debt and a new $200 million credit facility that will fund fibre-to-home networks across Florida. -
Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is selling services powered by 10Gbps-enabled XGS-PON, the operator has announced.
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All-optical networks that use photonics are the industry’s dream solution to the ever-increasing demand for speed. Alan Burkitt-Gray talks to Fabienne Saliou, a research engineer at Orange, which is running an exciting project using this tech
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Kate Johnson, the new CEO of Lumen, has confirmed that its pause in building out fibre “was more of a stop button than a pause button”.
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Openreach has made a four-point pledge to its wholesale customers, offering "long-term price certainty" on access to its growing fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network.
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Orange Belgium confirms the deployment of fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) pilots in Brussels.
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BT has selected Canonical, a publisher of public cloud operating system Ubuntu, to assist in its next generation 5G core by using Charmed OpenStack, an open source virtual infrastructure manager.
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Wholesale carrier CityFibre’s Gigabit City programme has begun connecting a further million UK homes and businesses to full fibre.
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A leading UK house-builder wants to set up its own licensed telecoms company so it can deliver fibre to its new homes.
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Openreach, BT’s wholesale last-mile subsidiary, has expanded its targets for directly connected fibre to 15 million UK buildings by the mid-2020s.
