FTTH in Europe

Bath-based provider Truespeed is investing £22 million across multiple South West locations including South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath as it accelerates full fibre roll-out.

The agreement will see Vodafone Ireland offer customers fixed line broadband services using Virgin Media Ireland’s fibre network.

The firms are jointly creating a new company – FibreCo – to deploy FTTH to up to 7 million homes over a six-year period.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, via the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures, published the proposal for a provisional resolution for the second call for the UNICO-Broadband programme.

The funding will enable the London ISP to continue to execute its fibre network roll-out to 2.2m London homes by the end of 2024.

Under the wholesale agreement between the rival operators, Fastweb will provide iliad with access to its fibre network across Italy.

The funding is able to be upsized to £178m over time to support future growth

The acquisition is in line with Giganet's UK growth strategy as part of the Fern fibre family, which also includes Jurassic, Swish, Allpoints Fibre and Vorboss.

The network will backhaul traffic from FTTH regional nodes to two central sites in Upper Austria.

The Bath-based full fibre broadband provider is making improvements as it continues the rapid expansion of its network.