News and BusinessGerman cartel authority the Bundeskartellamt has decided to approve the JV plans of Deutsche Telekom and EWE AG to expand fibre optic networks to end-customers in the northwestern region of the country. The JV – Glasfaser NordWest -will be obliged to add 300,000 end user fibre connections over the next four years. Longer term, the […]
News and BusinessVodafone Germany and open access network provider Deutsche Glasfaser have announced a cooperation to expand FTTH/FTTB access to private German households. The plan is for Deutsche Glasfaser to implement the passive fibre network and for Vodafone to lease, market and operate services on a long-term basis. The initial target market are consumers in the state […]
News and BusinessA new report predicts that in 2019 the availability of German broadband Gigabit-capable connections YoY will grow by 73% to 19 million. As components of this, the number of subscribers passed by FTTB/FFTH connections will expand by 20% to 4.4 million, while the number of Gigabit-capable ports on cable HFC networks (DOCSIS 3.1) will almost […]
News and BusinessAccording to the latest quarterly account from French telecoms regulator l’Autorité de Régulation des Communications électroniques et des Postes (ARCEP), annual growth in the number of superfast access subscriptions in the country reached two million, for the first time ever. This, says ARCEP, was very largely thanks to the growing adoption of FTTH/B. The report […]