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5G FWA is on the rise, but it's still a fiber world
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5G FWA is on the rise, but it’s still a fiber world

March 27, 2023 John C. Tanner 0

Analyst reports say 5G FWA will gain ground as an alternative broadband technology over the next five years, but it’s still a drop in a very large fiber ocean. Read more…

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FTTx and deep fiber to the network edge as converged platform

March 20, 2019 Events Centre 0

The FTTH APAC Conference in Wuhan, China on 15-17 April will be covering smart cities, FTTx and deep fiber to the network edge as converged platform. Read more…

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Why is 100M+ broadband a hard sell in most APAC markets?

January 31, 2019 John C. Tanner 0

Despite growing FTTH broadband takeup in APAC, in many markets most people are avoiding 100M+ packages, says a Kagan report. Why is that? Read more…

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StarHub lures HFC subs to fiber ahead of mid-2019 shutdown

November 2, 2018 News Centre 0

Singaporean telco StarHub announced that it is escalating efforts to migrate its HFC cable broadband customers to its fiber service before shutting down the cable network completely in the middle of next year. StarHub announced Read more…

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Converge ICT earmarks $1.8b to fiber up the Philippines

August 9, 2018 News Centre 0

MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine broadband services provider Converge ICT Solutions said on Wednesday it would invest $1.8 billion over the next five years for a nationwide rollout of fast and cheap fiber internet, partnering with Read more…

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Infrastructure sharing is key to FTTP growth in emerging markets

June 20, 2018 Benoît Felten 0

Asia-Pacific is a paradox when it comes to next generation wireline access. The region leads every international ranking in terms of deployment and penetration of FTTP, and yet there is no region where the disparity Read more…

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Fiber-fed broadband rules as ADSL fades away: report

May 31, 2018 News Centre 0

Fiber and cable networks are dominating the global broadband market, accounting for 77% of fixed subscriptions, new figures from Point Topic have revealed. According to Point Topic’s latest Global Broadband Statistics report, which take into Read more…

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StarHub reveals new incoming CEO, quits HFC rollouts

April 23, 2018 News Centre 0

StarHub announced Friday that Peter Kaliaropoulos would become CEO of the group effective July 9. Kaliaropoulos will join StarHub from Zain Saudi Arabia, where as CEO he led the company to its first ever net Read more…

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Q&A: Fiber must go deeper to handle future network demands

April 5, 2018 John C. Tanner 0

FTTx deployments have been ongoing for quite a long time now, but there are still plenty of gaps where fiber ideally ought to be, particularly at the edge. Operators have found plenty of workarounds, but Read more…

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ACCC clears Telstra plan to allow FTTC for NBN migration

March 7, 2018 News Centre 0

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has approved Telstra’s proposed variation to the NBN migration plan that names fiber to the curb (FTTC) as a new access technology for NBN connections. FTTC allows for Read more…

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Vodafone and Huawei trial network slicing for FTTH network

January 19, 2018 News Centre 0

Vodafone and Huawei say they have conducted a successful field trial of fixed access network slicing, which partitions a physical FTTH network into multiple virtual network slices, creating multi-tenancy virtualization of the access network. The Read more…

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Nokia adds micro-nodes to FTTx portfolio for flexible access options

October 18, 2017 News Centre 0

Nokia says it is adding several new products to its FTTx portfolio that aim to give operators greater flexibility and choice to accelerate ultra-broadband deployments. Operators are evolving their access networks to better meet consumer Read more…

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SingNet fined S$500,000 over last year’s 24-hour fiber outage

October 17, 2017 John C. Tanner 0

Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has fined Singtel ISP subsidiary SingNet S$500,000 (close to $373,000) for a fiber broadband service disruption in December that turned out to be self-inflicted. The incident, which occurred on Read more…

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Singtel to go all-fiber, will ditch ADSL by early next year

September 12, 2017 News Centre 1

Singtel has announced it will accelerate its fiber broadband push by halting copper deployments and replacing its existing ADSL connections with fiber. Ostensibly billed as a move to support the Singapore government’s “Smart Nation” ambitions, Read more…

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PLDT completes its FTTH rollout in Cavite province

September 5, 2017 News Centre 0

PLDT says it has further expanded the reach of its FTTH facilities by deploying high-speed broadband services to the key residential areas of Cavite province, making it the first “Fibr-powered Smart Province” in the Philippines. Read more…

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China Mobile deploys Nokia gateways for smart home services

June 13, 2017 News Centre 0

Nokia and China Mobile said they have signed a contract to deploy home gateways across 29 provinces in China to provide residential customers with access to fiber broadband applications and smart home services. Under the Read more…

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PLDT upgrades OTT streaming service with Roku box

April 27, 2017 News Centre 0

PLDT and Roku have announced the next generation of the incumbent telco’s TVolution streaming box that promises more content that’s easy to access. The new TVolution streaming box – revealed by PLDT and Roku at the Read more…

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PLDT FTTH project transforms Toledo City into “Fibr City”

March 23, 2017 News Centre 0

PLDT says it has stepped up its roll-out of FTTH facilities in strategic urban centers across the Philippines with Toledo City in Cebu province now serving as the host of its first ever “Fibr City” Read more…

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Video streaming demand justifies fixed-broadband push: Globe CEO

March 8, 2017 News Centre 0

Globe Telecom president and CEO Ernest Cu said that rising customer demand for video streaming services, amid a continuous shift to a digital lifestyle and growing proliferation of connected devices, is expected to support Globe’s Read more…

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AIS announces basically everything at Vision 2017 lovefest: LTE, Wi-Fi, IoT, and more

February 7, 2017 Don Sambandaraksa 0

Thai cellco AIS launched a blitz of new stuff at its annual AIS Vision 2017 event on Monday, including Wave-2 Wi-Fi, 32 x 32 MIMO, LTE+Wi-Fi channel bonding, a narrowband IoT pilot, nanofinance, OTT TV Read more…

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