A couple of months ago we revealed that Openreach had launched a review of their FTTP on Demand (FTTPoD or FoD) product for UK broadband ISPs (here), which proposed to stop selling it later this year. The conclusion of that review has just been published and FoD has been given a reprieve, at least for […]
Broadband ISP Pine Media Launch Mesh WiFi Solution for Homes
UK ISP Pine Media, which is rolling out its own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in South Yorkshire (Sheffield) and rural Derbyshire (they also sell products over Openreach’s rival network), has launched a new Mesh WiFi solution for customers via a partnership with Plume. Sadly, we haven’t had a solid update on Pine Media’s full […]
Alternative Full Fibre ISPs Cover 5.46 Million UK Premises in 2022
The Independent Networks Co-operative Association and Point Topic have published their 2022 report into the impact of alternative “full fibre” (FTTP/B) broadband networks, which reveals that such providers grew their UK cover by 111% in 2021 (up from 110% last year) to cover 5.46 million premises and could hit 11.6m this year. As usual, the […]
Gigaclear Extend Rural FTTP Broadband to 300,000 UK Premises
Infracapital-backed broadband ISP Gigaclear has this afternoon claimed that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which tends to target rural parts of England, has now covered 300,000 premises (up from 250,000 in December 2021). The operator’s network is already present in rural communities and market towns across various parts of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, […]
Brazil selects Hengtong for second section of Amazon River fibre cable
Back in February 2021, cable specialist Prysmian announced that it had won a contract from the Brazilian government to supply 770km of fibre cable as first stage of the Norte Conectado project, a plan to deploy fibre infrastructure beneath the Amazon River in order to serve rural northern communities…
Orange and DabaDoc launch e-health platform for Ivory Coast
It provides access to several services such as online appointment booking, payment for remote consultations by the diaspora, digitized medical records and teleconsultations.
The Orange Santé platform is developed in partnership with DabaDoc, the Moroccan start-up in which Orange has invested…
GSMA move to standardise ESG reporting metrics
According to the GSMA, there are currently around 600 different ESG reporting standards currently in use throughout the mobile industry. This fragmentation not only makes measuring progress on an industrial scale very difficult, but also places a heavy burden on the operators, who often commit significant time and effort in the data collection and reporting progress to produce a report of limited value.
Now, the GSMA has announced the release of a new whitepaper…
Nokia Demo 100Gbps Full Fibre PON Prototype Outside Lab
Following last year’s successful lab tests, Nokia has brought their future 100G PON (Passive Optical Network) technology to be showcased at the “Fiber Connect” event in Nashville (USA). The new kit is capable of delivering full fibre 100Gbps speeds in downstream on a single PON wavelength in a real-world environment. The technology we’re talking about […]
Openreach Hint UK FTTC Broadband Installs Starting to Shrink
Openreach (BT) has hinted that, for the first time, new installations of their hybrid Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC / VDSL2) broadband ISP lines may soon start to shrink, which would partly reflect the rising coverage of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology. The last official BT Group results to the end of March 2022 noted that Openreach had covered […]
Lit Fibre Adds 6 New UK Towns to Full Fibre Broadband Rollout
Alternative network ISP Lit Fibre, which is building a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to reach 500,000 homes by 2026, has today added six new UK towns to their rollout plan. The move brings the total number of homes in towns under deployment to over 200,000 – just 9 months after their first build. […]