TalkTalk has announced plans to create an independent company to provide full fibre to more than three million homes and businesses in mid-sized towns and cities in the UK. The service provider said it has agreed heads of terms with Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of M&G Prudential, with Infracapital funding 80% and TalkTalk […]
Portuguese network operators NOS and Vodafone Portugal have signed a deal to co-develop and share fibre infrastructure. The pair’s agreement covers the reciprocal sharing of dark fibre infrastructure covering about 2.6 million homes in the country. The pair’s agreement also extends to mobile infrastructure, with the pair set to share a minimum of 200 mobile […]
Vodafone Germany has unveiled plans to invest €2 billion by the end of 2021 on Gigabit fibre broadband services. The UK-headquartered telecoms giant said it expects todeliver around 13.7 million new gigabit connections to German consumers andenterprises under the plan. Vodafone Germany CEO, Hannes Ametsreiter, described the investment strategy as “transformational” and predicted it would deliver […]
The UK government has started trialling 1 Gigabit broadband, marking the start of a £200 million (€218 million) scheme to introduce the UK’s “fastest and most reliable broadband”. The first stage of the project launches today with six local pilots in: Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire; West Sussex; Coventry and Warwickshire; Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset; […]
Altice’s French unit SFR is to roll out fibre across the whole of France, promising to cover 80% of the national territory by 2022 and 100% by 2025. Responding to a request by the French government for operators to make their fibre plans public, Altice-SFR said it would build out a fibre network without any […]
There are now more fibre broadband subscribers than cable in Portugal, according to the latest statistics published by regulator ANACOM. According to the communications watchdog, there were 3.42 million fixed broadband subscribers in the country at the end of the first quarter, up 44,000 on the previous three months. Fibre now accounts for 34% of […]
Regional Spanish broadband provider Adamo will invest €40 million to build out fibre in the Cantabria region in the north of the country. The company said the expansion will take fibre to all parts of the region and beyond the cities of Santander and Torrelavega that already have fibre optic internet coverage. Adamo claims that […]
Google will not now roll out fibre internet in most of its ‘potential Fiber cities’ and will cut staff in these markets, in a major change to its connectivity strategy. In a blog post announcing its decision, Google said that work would continue in its existing Google Fiber footprint – in the cities where it […]
Sky has launched an ultra-fast broadband product, Sky Fibre Max, offering speeds of up 76Mbps, in the UK. The new service, Sky’s fastest broadband offering, will be available for £25 a month plus Sky line rental. The company is highlighting the ability of Sky customers to download music albums in five seconds and TV shows […]
Virgin Media has named 10 communities in England and Scotland that will benefit from an “ultrafast broadband and entertainment boost” this year. The villages will be connected with fibre broadband that is run directly to homes and businesses, with the investment forming part of Virgin Media’s £3 billion (€3.9 billion) Project Lightning network expansion. Four […]
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