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Micro-trenching technology and XGS-PON platform will allow for faster deployment.
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UK water provider, Yorkshire Water and its partners have received a £1.2m government grant to kick-start research and development of fibre-in-water in the UK.
UK altnet, Netomnia and sister company, ISP YouFibre have secured £295m in new funding.
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Belgian provider, Proximus has committed to expanding roll-out of its open fibre network across the southern part of West Flanders.
UK ISP, Giganet has opened a full fibre training centre in Whiteley, Hampshire.
l-r: Jürgen Schuster (Corwese), Mayor Heinrich Jäckle, Silvia Kleinscheck (M-net) and Tobias Miessl (miecom network service)
Bavarian network provider, M-net is building a new fibre network in partnership with regional regional operator miecom in the Lauterbrunn district of the municipality of Heretsried, northwest of Augsburg.
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Deutsche Giga Access (DGA), a regional wholesale access provider in Germany deploying a gigabit-capable FTTH network to a new area in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany.
l-r: Colin Hutchinson, chief financial officer at Fibrus, Angela McGowan director CBI in NI, and Dominc Kearns, Fibrus founder
Northern Ireland's full fibre operator, Fibrus has secured funding worth £220m from a consortium of banks including the UK Infrastructure Bank, to fund fibre roll-out in Northern Ireland.
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Arelion (formerly Telia Carrier) has completed its backbone route expansion in Norway.
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Keely Portway takes a look at the latest developments when it comes to FTTH deployment in Europe and what needs to be done to overcome the hurdles in the path of acceleration
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Keely Portway reports on a recent webinar about how the telecoms sector is addressing the current shortage in skills, from recruitment through to keeping great candidates once they are on board
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Keely Portway takes a look at the latest developments when it comes to FTTH deployment in Europe and what needs to be done to overcome the hurdles in the path of acceleration
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As pressure on networks continues to grow, photonic integrated circuits (PIC) are becoming more advanced to sustain the unprecedented rise in traffic, finds Abigail Williams
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A look at the market for optical line termination equipment and some of the products and solutions available
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Keely Portway rounds-up some of the industry's responses to the government’s connectivity mission in the recent Levelling Up white paper
The continued resource challenges faced by operators could be aided with advances in tools and technology, suggests Stéphane Chabot
