Fixed-line operators in developed economies worldwide will spend $53.5 billion on FTTx infrastructure between 2012 and 2017, according to new report from Analysys Mason. About 82% of that money will go to fiber to the home (FTTH) deployments – a stra…
The Fiber-to-the-Home Council Americas has announced a report that attempts to profile users of the small but growing array of 1-Gbps FTTP-enabled service offerings worldwide. The report makes the case that for an increasing number of users, 1 Gbps dow…
While other large incumbent service providers such as AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) wind down their fiber-based broadband initiatives, two North Dakota telecom cooperatives have completed a Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network that they say wil…
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) may once again strike the ire of broadband consumers with plans to stop offering “naked” or standalone DSL services (aka dry loop DSL), meaning that new users will have to buy a wireline POTS even if they don’t want it. Beginni…
As we noted yesterday, Verizon has decided to wind the clock back to 2005 and will no longer sell DSL services to new users without a landline. Worse perhaps, users on existing standalone DSL lines will be forced to add voice service (whether they want…
Bell Aliant (Toronto: BA-UN.TO) is enhancing its FibreOP branded Fiber to the Home in New Brunswick, Canada with Sussex being the most recent city to get the service following a CAD 2 million (USD 2 million) investment in the area.
With this new deploy…
According to an updated blog post on their fiber to the home effort, Google says the company’s crews have already strung more than 100 miles of fiber across both Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. The company is giving a deployment Q&A high…
“I hate wireless,” proclaims Sonic.net CEO Dane Jasper in a blog post explaining that the the independent California-based ISP has sold off its wireless assets. According to Jasper, the company wanted to streamline their focus on wireline and building …
Deutsche Telekom (XETRA: DTE.DE) has begun construction on a Fiber to the Home (FTTH) project serving housing association Deutsche Annington Immobilien in Bochum.
When the first phase of the new FTTH network is completed in 2013, it will serve about 42…
BT says that Deddington, Oxfordshire will serve as the first pilot location for its fiber-only exchange program. The program is designed to test the benefits of fiber to the home (FTTH) technology.