FTTP
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Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) is selling services powered by 10Gbps-enabled XGS-PON, the operator has announced. -
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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Nokia has reached the 100-customer milestone for the Quillion chipset-based broadband solutions used in next-generation fibre and copper telecommunication networks.
Forthcoming events
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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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Openreach's full fibre broadband will be available to 4.5 million UK premises by next Wednesday.
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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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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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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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Cardiff-based ISP Spectrum has secured a £200 million investment to support it in delivering fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) to 150,000 sites across the south of Wales.
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Australia is about to see its first 10 gigabit per second passive optical network (PON) deployed, not by NBN but its largest private competitor, OptiComm.
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Australia’s NBN Co is to invest A$4.5 billion as it continues highspeed internet rollouts across Australia that will create 25,000 jobs.
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BT has launched a new Ethernet Fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) solution for wholesale partners as part of its business connectivity portfolio.
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Openreach has outlined its plans to build out full fibre to 227 market towns and villages across the UK within the next 14 months.
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Openreach, the UK’s wholesale last-mile company, says it will extend all-fibre broadband to 36 new locations, with work due to start over the next 12 months.
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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.
