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Building sustainable green fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks is key for ZTE’s network development and benefits the whole society, the Chinese vendor says. -
Poland now has a unified company planning to build an open access 5Gbps fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network, serving Play Group and other operators.
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The Indian market for fixed broadband is rising fast, with Reliance Jio set to be lead supplier in terms of number of subscriptions.
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Openreach, the UK last-mile company owned by BT, has made full fibre connections available to its 10 millionth home.
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Netomnia and its sister company YouFibre have raised £230 million in committed debt financing.
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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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Australia’s state-owned wholesale last-mile company NBN Co is firing 10% of its staff as the fixed market has stalled.
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French company Altice now owns 50% of Vodafone’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) company in Germany.
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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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The owner of four of the UK’s smaller fibre operators are merging their operations in the face of rising competition.
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Orange Belgium and Belgian cable operator Telenet have sign two commercial wholesale agreements providing access to each other’s broadband networks.
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UK-based fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) operator Hyperoptic has recruited Lutfu Kitapci from Vodafone to lead a new push to connect consumers.
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Private equity investor Cube Infrastructure Managers has injected €14 million into Fibernet Finland in what it calls “the first phase”.
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UK fibre company Hyperoptic is to upgrade its IP core network for increased power efficiency and capacity.
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CityFibre, which raised £4.9 billion in debt last month, has increased the speed of its planned direct fibre network to 10Gbps, and possibly 25Gbps.
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A complex merger deal involving the western world’s fibre-making industry has taken its next stage, but Adtran and Adva will have to wait an expected six months before they are a single entity.
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Greek operator OTE – 50% owned by Deutsche Telekom – is to raise a total of €150 million in a low-interest loan from the European Union (EU) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
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Openreach, the last mile fibre and copper operation owned by BT, has made Jenni Macfarlane its service delivery director for Scotland.
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