Fibre deployment for homes in Western Europe continues to grow steadily but lags behind other countries. The FTTH Council Europe announced at a conference in London that Eastern Europe and Scandinavian countries have reinforced their ...
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Consumers need to reach out to local MPs to raise awareness of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH), after the UK failed to even qualify for the FTTH Council's recent rankings. Government slammed for no-show at fibre-to-the-home conference Lack of ...
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A lack of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband in the UK and abroad is holding back the video games industry, according to the president and CEO of Eidos, Ian Livingstone. In an exclusive interview at the FTTH Council's Conference 2013, ...
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An MP has slammed Whitehall officials for not attending the Fibre to the Home (FTTH) Council's Conference 2013, claiming that the government "does not know enough". Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle Central and shadow minister for the ...
BT has announced the next stage of its £2.5bn fibre broadband rollout, which will extend availability to a further 1.2 million premises. The company said 99 new fibre-enabled exchanges will bring fast broadband to 600,000 premises ...
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Google has issued a lawsuit against BT in both the US and the UK over what it claims is an infringement of its patents. In 2011, BT launched its own legal action against Google for infringing six of its patents in a US court in Delaware. ...
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Jean-Pierre Labry, Executive Vice-President, R&M Middle East, Turkey and Africa R&M on Sunday announced double-digit growth in the Middle East over the past 12 months, stating that it now intends to replicate this success in Turkey, ...
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Work on the Welsh government's Superfast Cymru programme is under way, the Welsh business minister Edwina Hart has announced. The project looks to deliver high-speed and "world class" broadband access to 96 per cent of Welsh homes and ...
The idea that broadband projects face a struggle to find finance is a myth, according to the director general of non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. "Because of the financial crisis, people say there is no money ...
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BT is wrong to claim that the UK does not have the demand to justify rolling out a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) product nationally, according to the director general of the non-profit organisation FTTH Council Europe, Hartwig Tauber. The ...
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Broadband is no toy for early adopters.More citizens in the UK have access to the internet than ever before and those in the industry have had to move at a rate of knots to keep up with demand for better coverage,faster speeds and necessary ...
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NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high-speed ...
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The government has hit back against comments from former BT CTO Peter Cochrane that it is 'visionless' in its attempt to implement broadband across the UK, by insisting that it has a clear plan. Meanwhile, BT has slammed Cochrane over his ...
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Reichle & De-Massari (R&M), the Swiss structured cabling company, has announced it will be participating at GITEX. At the event, the focus of R&M, which is one of the top 3 structured cabling vendors in the region in terms of market share, ...
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The UK is to have the fastest broadband network of all major European countries by 2015,culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has claimed. Speaking at the Google Campus in Tech City,Hunt defended the government after criticism from a Lords ...