Telstra has released the details of new fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network plans, declaring that a commercial pilot of the system will commence in new Queensland estates around June of this year.

The National Broadband Network (NBN) company should increase the extent of its fibre network, providing as many customers as possible with fibre to the premises (FttP) and fibre to the distribution ...

After years of 5G chest-thumping, the major US operators are now looking to outdo each other in the fibre access network sector Verizon’s plan to acquire fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network operator ...

Two Labor members of Parliament have written an open letter to Malcolm Turnbull asking him to reconsider his scrapping of Labor's FTTP NBN plans. They argue that the greater bandwidth of Labor’s fibre ...

BT’s broadband wholesale division Openreach is pressing regulator Ofcom to ‘relax’ some rules that will help its ongoing FTTP investment case INCA, the industry body that represents the UK’s fibre ...

BT-owned fibre network provider Openreach has claimed a new milestone with its FTTP product Ultrafast Full Fibre now available to 17 million premises – half of all UK homes and businesses. Openreach ...

Cost is a central issue in the ongoing debate about the best approach to building Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN). In 2013, the Coalition argued that Labor’s original all-fibre to the ...

BT aims to accelerate FTTP build with a target of 20 million premises passed by the mid- to late-2020s. BT’s FTTP network covers 2.6 million premises. FTTP network covered an additional 1.3 million ...

FTTP networks could be used as sensors to help other utility providers identify problems in their networks. A technology called DFOS (distributed fiber optic sensing) works by measuring changes in ...

Fiber to the premises extends fiber cabling all the way to homes or businesses. Because fiber provides a significant bandwidth boost over twisted-pair or coaxial connections used in the last mile, ...

This latest single-point increase in FTTP coverage from 51% to 52% has taken 32 days a full eleven days slower than it took to jump from 50% to 51%. The main reason for the slow down is the increasing ...

Regional Bell operating companies say they will begin deploying fiber-to-the-premises technology next year, a rather speedy time frame considering that the proposal for FTTP equipment was issued only ...