MONTPELLIER, FRANCE — Currently the FTTx market is mainly lead by FTTH, FTTB and VDSL technologies. According to the latest IDATE DigiWorld FTTx report, along the period 2017-2022 it is expected an average ...

REDMOND, WA — On Thursday, Native Network and Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement to provide broadband internet access to approximately 73,500 unserved people in rural communities in Washington and ...

SPARTANBURG, SC — AFL, an international manufacturer of fiber optic cable, equipment and accessories, is releasing the Mini DIN Rail Mounted Enclosure. This new enclosure’s compact design gives it ...

PHOENIX — Cable One announced it will acquire Clearwave Communications, a facilities-based service provider that owns and operates a high-capacity fiber network offering dense regional coverage in Southern ...

LICHFIELD, STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND — The ability to have a converged architecture supporting multiple applications as well as reusing the existing passive ODN are the key drivers for implementation of ...

LICHFIELD, STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND — Ukraine offers the world’s cheapest broadband, with an average cost of USD 5.00 per month. The West African nation of Mauritania is the most expensive, with an average ...

NORWALK, CT —Frontier Communications, a provider of communications services to urban, suburban and rural communities in 29 states, is expanding availability of gigabit broadband service across its fiber ...

ROANOKE, VA — Broadbandtrends, an independent market analysis and consulting firm specializing in the entire broadband ecosystem, recently conducted a global service provider survey of broadband operators ...

ST. LOUIS — Hotwire Communications has gone live with an Amdocs platform that consolidates and modernizes its billing, product catalog, customer relationships as well as workforce management operations. ...

CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Fioptics revenue totaled $86 million, up 9 percent from a year ago, Cincinnati Bell reported in its 3Q 2018 financial results. This includes Hawaiian Telcom’s financial performance ...

NEW YORK — Verizon announced that anyone who signs up for Fios Gigabit Connection will get a free year of Amazon Prime. Current Amazon Prime customers will receive another year free. In addition, customers ...

NEW YORK — Altice USA, the provider of Optimum and Suddenlink-branded internet, TV and phone services across 21 states, is progressing with its fiber buildout while continuing to roll out enhanced broadband ...

LAS VEGAS — Calix, a provider of broadband communications access systems, launched the GigaSpire smart home system powered by EXOS with improved Wi-Fi performance and intelligent bandwidth optimization. ...

BERLIN — Europeans are generally less optimistic about digitization and future technologies than people in Asia, according to a study conducted by the opinion research institute Ipsos on behalf of the ...

LOWELL, MA and SPARTANBURG, SC — AFL, a provider of fusion splicers and accessories to the broadband market, introduces FleXpress Fast OTDR Test for its popular FlexScan family of performance-packed, ...

TAMPA, FL — Verizon and Calix, a global provider of cloud and software platforms, systems and services used in access networks, achieved consistent, symmetrical customer usable throughputs of 8 Gbps ...

LAS VEGAS — Calix, a provider of broadband communications access systems, announced the AXOS Intelligent Access Edge solution, giving service providers the flexibility to bring Layer 3 functionality—including ...

VANCOUVER, BC — In Canada, federal, provincial and territorial ministers for innovation and economic development agreed to make broadband a priority and to develop a long-term strategy to improve access ...

LAS VEGAS — NextLight, the community-owned fiber-optic network ISP from Longmont Power & Communications in Longmont, Colorado, has selected Alianza+6, a cloud voice platform company, for its next-generation ...

SANTA CLARA, CA — Aricent, a global design and engineering company, announced the support of the Aricent SDvAS Virtual OLT framework (SDN-enabled virtualized Access Solution for Virtual OLT) on Broadcom’s ...