FTTH News
NextGenUs bringing fibre broadband to 10,000 rural properties
Fibrestream parent company NextGenUs has announced plans to bring fibre optic broadband to as many as 10,000 rural homes and businesses across the UK. The community broadband specialist has launched a competition, entitled Beyond...
Read moreFibre to the home project gets major restructure
Fibre to the home provider CityFibre Holdings has announced it has finished restructuring work on two of its acquired firms, which the company took over following financial woes. Fibrecity Holdings and H20 Networks, which were...
Read moreBT announces new fibre-to-the-home rollout
BT Openreach has announced plans to bring fibre to the home (FTTH) to more properties across the UK. The company revealed it will upgrade 156 exchanges over the coming months as part of its latest programme of fibre optic...
Read moreTalkTalk plans to launch fibre broadband in May
TalkTalk has announced its first ever fibre optic broadband product will be available from next month. The internet service provider (ISP) revealed it will launch the technology in May 2011, having confirmed plans to move into...
Read moreFibrestream boss gives mixed reaction to rural broadband cash
The chief executive of Fibrestream has expressed his hope that the government's recently-announced rural broadband funding will help the deployment of fibre to the home (FTTH). Guy Jarvis said the £20 million pledged by the...
Read moreFibrestream boss says FTTH is the 4th utility
Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband is just as important to people's daily lives as gas, electricity and water, a telecoms expert has argued. Guy Jarvis, the boss of internet service provider Fibrestream, described the...
Read moreFibre broadband key to Digital Agenda target, says expert
Fibre optic broadband has been backed as the best way for European nations to meet the minimum speed targets set in the Digital Agenda. Under the European Commission's plans, 50 per cent of the continent's citizens must...
Read moreFibrestream boss welcomes Virgin Media 100Mbps broadband plans
Fibresteam's chief executive has welcomed Virgin Media's plans to extend its "ultra-fast" 100Mbps fibre optic broadband product to more of the UK. Writing on the internet service provider's official blog,...
Read moreFibre-to-the-home trial announced by TalkTalk
Fibre to the home (FTTH) will be trialled by TalkTalk as part of its planned rollout of super-fast broadband using BT Openzone infrastructure. The internet service provider (ISP) is set to test the technology via a small-scale...
Read moreFibre-to-the-home broadband launched in Broughton
A fibre-to-the-home broadband service has brought download speeds of up to 1Gbps to the rural village of Broughton in Cambridgeshire. The technology has been deployed in the area by Vtesse Broadband and is now available for...
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