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UK begins 1Gb broadband trials
The UK government has started trialling 1 Gigabit broadband, marking the start of a £200…
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Altice promises to fibre France without public funds
Altice’s French unit SFR is to roll out fibre across the whole of France, promising…
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Fibre surpasses cable in Portugal
There are now more fibre broadband subscribers than cable in Portugal, according to the latest…
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Spain’s Adamo makes €40m fibre pledge
Regional Spanish broadband provider Adamo will invest €40 million to build out fibre in the…
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Google halts new Fiber rollouts, cuts staff in major strategy shift
Google will not now roll out fibre internet in most of its ‘potential Fiber cities’…
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Sky launches new ultra-fast fibre offering
Sky has launched an ultra-fast broadband product, Sky Fibre Max, offering speeds of up 76Mbps,…
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Virgin Media names UK villages due for fibre upgrades
Virgin Media has named 10 communities in England and Scotland that will benefit from an…
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Orange to extend fibre network to 10 more cities
Orange in Poland is to extend its fibre network to 10 additional cities, the company…
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IoD: UK should aim for 1,000x faster broadband speeds
The UK government has a “poverty of ambition” when it comes to national broadband speeds…
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UK government pledges superfast broadband for new homes
The UK government has unveiled plans to make superfast fibre broadband available to all new…
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Orange passes fibre milestone
Orange now has over one million fibre broadband customers. The milestone was marked by the…
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Vodafone Portugal to extend FTTH to further half million homes
Vodafone Portugal has said it will extend its fibre-to-the-home network to an additional 550,000 homes…
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Ovum: 1bn mobile broadband subscriptions in Africa in 2020
The number of mobile broadband connections in Africa will climb from 147 million last year…
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Altice to accelerate fibre build-out
Cable and telecom investor Altice has said it plans to accelerate its fibre build-out in…
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Netflix partners with Vodafone Italy
Netflix has partnered with Vodafone in Italy, with the operator due to introduce exclusive promotional…
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Portuguese broadband growth driven by fibre
Growth in Portuguese broadband was driven by fibre connections in the first quarter of this…
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Vodafone, Wind and Metroweb to build Italian fibre network
Vodafone and Vimpelcom-owned Italian mobile operator Wind have reportedly signed an agreement with broadband firm…
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Vodafone’s TV customer base now 9.1 million
Vodafone closed the quarter ending March 31 with 9.1 million TV customers and 11.3 million…
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Orange moves forward with French fibre plans
Orange is aiming to reach 100% fibre deployment in nine new French cities by the…
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Telefónica passes five million TV subscriber milestone
Telefónica saw its global TV subscriber base grow by almost half last year to over…
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TalkTalk reports ‘strongest quarter’ for TV, mobile and fibre
UK service provider TalkTalk reported its “strongest ever quarter” for combined uptake of its TV,…
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Numericable loses lucrative Hauts-de-Seine fibre build
The local authorities of France’s important Hauts-de-Seine department to the West of Paris have rescinded…
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Vodafone revises Orange fibre deal as it completes Ono acquisition
Vodafone has completed the acquisition of Spanish cable operator Ono and has revised its fibre-sharing…
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Telefunken partners with Aurora on fibre internet
Telefunken Communications has partnered with Pace-owned Aurora Networks to launch fibre-based fast internet services in…
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BT hits 19 million fibre homes target
BT has now passed more than 19 million homes and businesses with fibre broadband, reaching…
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Bouygues: SFR acquisition will enable doubling of fibre investment
The acquisition of SFR by Bouygues Telecom would re-establish a competitive French telecom market and…
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VimpelCom boost from fibre growth
Russian service provider VimpelCom’s fixed line business was boosted by growth in fibre-to-the-building subscribers and…
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Stofa hires new agencies following takeover of Waoo! subs
Danish cable operator Stofa has hired marketing agencies OMD and Gekko to help with a…
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BT appoints new Openreach CEO
BT has appointed former HSBC, Dixons and Procter & Gamble executive Joe Garner as the…
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Most European broadband to still come from copper lines in 2020
Most of Europe will still get its broadband delivered over copper phone lines, despite the…