News and BusinessAdtran has announced that Iowa-based service provider MTC Technologies is using its Total Access 5000 (pictured) 10Gbps fibre access platform to provide Gigabit broadband services to customers in Southeast Iowa. Also featuring Adtran’s optical network terminals (ONTs), the new solution enables MTC Technologies to rapidly expand its footprint and deliver symmetrical, super-fast connectivity to more […]
News and BusinessUS telecoms regulator Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced phase one of plans to hold an auction worth US$16 billion over 10 years for the deployment of fixed broadband networks to millions of unserved homes and businesses across rural America. FCC says the US$20.4 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund is the FCC’s most ambitious step […]
News and BusinessThe Independent Networks Co-operative Association’s (INCA) Annual Conference promises to shed light on government fibre policy, says INCA CEO Malcolm Corbett, following the government’s pledge to invest five billion pounds towards rural gigabit broadband. The announcement, which was made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of September, outlined the Government’s plans for […]
News and BusinessSupplier of ELASTIC Network® solutions for service providers, critical infrastructures and datacentre operators ECI, has partnered with value-added distributor WDC Networks to better serve Brazilian Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The partnership is designed to enable ISPs throughout the country to use optical technology deliver affordable, high-speed broadband to regions and rural communities which have been historically underserved. […]
News and BusinessA new report by the UK’s House of Lords Select Committee for the Rural Economy, has called on the government to rethink its strategy for the provision of rural broadband across the UK. One of the main criticisms in the report entitled Time for a Strategy for the Rural Economy, is that the Universal Service Obligation […]
News and BusinessDeutsche Telekom, which claims to be the only company investing as much in broadband expansion in rural areas of Germany, says it is planning a new push to provide FTTC in rural as well as metropolitan areas beginning on 14th May. Tim Höttges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom says, “We aren’t only building information superhighways between […]
News and BusinessJust three months after Spain’s President Mariano Rajoy promised a “definitive boost” in the effort to bring fast broadband to rural areas, comes the news that Masmovil, has decided to cancel two-thirds of the government-sponsored fibre broadband projects that it had originally signed up to. According to press reports, Masmovil, the country’s fourth largest network […]