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France Telecom Orange to increase fiber network spending in 2012

Published on February 2, 2012 By Don

France Telecom Orange (NYSE: FTE) isn’t afraid of broadband competition and its commitment to spend €300-350 million euros ($394 million-460 million) shows that it is ready to fight.
Stephane Richard, France Telecom’s CEO said that ongoing fi…

Australia’s Internode targets greenfield FTTH opportunities

Published on January 30, 2012 By Don

Internode, a competitive telco that’s in the process of being purchased by iiNet, is targeting 20 new real estate developments in Australia with a series of new Fiber to the Home (FTTH) tariffs.
The service provider said the new FTTH offerings will hav…

Telekom Austria’s A1 squeezes more out of its copper lines with vectoring

Published on January 20, 2012 By Don

Telekom Austria’s (NYSE: TKA) A1 subsidiary has found that vectoring technology is another way to extend the life of its copper network to deliver higher speed on its Giga-Network.
Built in a hybrid copper/fiber configuration, the Giga-Network con…

Google’s FTTH aspirations run into utility pole snag in Kansas City

Published on January 19, 2012 By Don

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) may have high aspirations for its 1 Gbps Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network in Kansas City, Kan., but those dreams have turned into somewhat of a nightmare as it’s in the midst of a dispute with the local utility company on where it…

FTTH isn’t resonating with Germany’s broadband users

Published on January 19, 2012 By Don

Despite all of the unlimited bandwidth promise of Fiber to the Home (FTTH)-based services in German consumers aren’t biting.
As reported by the FTTH Council Europe, Germany trails the rest of Europe in terms of FTTH deployment with only 1 million homes…

France Telecom strikes FTTH network pact with Bouygues Telecom

Published on January 17, 2012 By Don

France Telecom-Orange (NYSE: FTE) is enhancing its Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network expansion efforts via a new relationship with competitive provider Bouygues Telecom.
Targeting the country’s 148 most densely populated areas, the incumbent telco will …

Taipei City leverages sewers as FTTH network route

Published on January 5, 2012 By Don

Taipei’s city government is set on bringing its Fiber to the Home (FTTH) to 80 percent of the city’s homes by 2015, and to reach that goal it is going to leverage the city’s sewers as a way to connect the service to consumers.
Over the course of the ne…

Cable&Wireless LIME Jamaica lights up 100 Mbps FTTH service

Published on December 16, 2011 By Don

Cable and Wireless Communications’ (LSE: CW.L) Caribbean business LIME has officially launched its 100 Mbps residential Fiber to the Home (FTTH) service.
Initially available only in Montego Bay and St Catherine, the service provider will over time expa…

Infonetics: Wireline broadband access equipment sales to reach peak in 2011

Published on December 14, 2011 By Don

As more service providers expanded their respective VDSL and GPON-based networks this year, it drove strong spending in wireline broadband access network equipment.
Strong PON spending by China’s major service providers in addition to DSL growth in Cen…

Is cable the right complement to Verizon’s FiOS network?

Published on December 9, 2011 By Don

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) President and CEO Lowell McAdam made it clear this week during the UBS Warburg conference that they have a set a goal to where they ultimately want to reach in building out FiOS Fiber to the Home (FTTH) service.
During the event, McA…