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Bezeq, the Israeli incumbent plans for a field trail of GPON FTTH. As part of a several months long trial in Petach Tiqva the operator will connect hundreds of GPON FTTH subscribers. These are surprising news from Israel where no serious FTTH seemed not to be considered by any major provider. There’s an article with [...]
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In the 28th of July the GIG.U initiative was launched in the US. From the information released so far, GIG.U assumes the role of the intermediary between the local communities around the participating universities and the telecommunications operators. In a nutshell, GIG.U will aggregate demand and then call operators to bid and compete to serve [...]
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Almost a year ago (29th of March 2010) NBN issued a Request for Capability Statement for the construction of its network. In June the 23rd after assessing the applications filled 21 companies were invited to bid for the tender. Nevertheless, a few days ago, NBN Co announced that it withdraws the tender, the head of [...]
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The Government of Qatar announced that it plans to establish a National Broadband Plan for the country that will help advance the fiber penetration across. The Q.NBN, currently the name of the plan, will assume planning and deployment of passive infrastructure. The initiative was formulated with the constribution of the major service providers active in [...]
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Telmex, the Mexican incumbent, is deploying FTTH in Yukatan Country Club, a high-income residential area in Mexico. The investment is estimated at 2.3M euros to offer speeds up to 1Gbps in all residences. Telmex seems to have plans to deploy GPON FTTH in other parts of the country, namely cities. These pictures show, according to [...]
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Carlota Perez, the keynote speaker to address FTTH Council’s conference in Milan earlier this month, made a very simple yet powerfull observation. Looking back to all 5 major industrial revolutions periods she divides each revolution era in two consequtive periods, one financially led and one production-led. The two periods are divided (or perhaps, more accurately [...]
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The communications company of Falls City, a small rural city in Nebraska/USA has completed a full deployment of FTTH across the city and is now nearly finisshing hooking-up all homes and businesses in the area (note: connecting, not activating). The company is working closely with local authorities to increase awareness about the benefits of high [...]
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Here’s a couple new announcements in Europe on FTTH deployments: The first comes from Spain where Movistar launched commercially its FTTH offerings covering 300k households with the aim to span over 1 million homes by the end of the year. The second comes from Ukraine where Kyivstar expanded its FTTH network to 38 cities in [...]
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According to today’s People’s Daily Online, China Telecom just launched a 3-year strategy within the general plan “Broadband China Optical Network City” to interconnect with fiber optical links all the cities in mainland China. Obviously, the plan comes in support to the company’s FTTH/B plans announced in 2010 based on GPON gear from Ericsson and [...]
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This video makes people happy and willing to allow the “ugly” FTTH installations in their homes. It’s all in the message!
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