Tag: Fiber

February 16, 2024

U.K. telco Virgin Media O2 said its 5G network reached a coverage of 50% of the country’s population as of the end of 2023, the company said in its earning statement. The company also noted that its fixed network serviceable […]

October 20, 2023

Connectbase, The Industry Cloud for Connectivity, welcomes Retelit, the leading Italy-based global fiber provider and data center network, to The Connected World platform. Retelit is leveraging Connectbase’s award-winning connectivity buying and selling platform, The Connected World, to promote its global […]

October 18, 2023

Chinese vendor Huawei plans to officially release Net5.5G-oriented series products and solutions in 2024, Leon Wang, president of Huawei data communication product line, said during a keynote speech at Huawei’s UBBF event, which took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, […]

August 16, 2023

Optical Zonu Corporation, a leading provider of radio frequency over fiber (RFoF) transport solutions, announced its expanded RFoF offering to improve connectivity for 5G direct-to-cellular satellite services with the hiring of former AST SpaceMobile Gateway Engineer Luis Tellez-Giron as an […]

March 24, 2023

5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) subscriptions are forecast to reach 72 million by 2027, representing 35% of the total FWA market, according to a recent report by ABI Research. Although LTE FWA services have already been widely deployed worldwide, they […]

March 13, 2023

Greetings from the Southeast and the Midwest as winter transitions into spring. In this Brief, after a full market commentary, we will provide a retrospective on larger macro trends since the 2020 shutdown (pictured is Bossy Beulah’s, a favorite lunch […]

February 23, 2023

Let me help AT&T and Verizon solve a growing problem they are wrestling with. When you are in a competitive industry, you must first focus on the customer. Happy customers let you grow and succeed. Unhappy customers are always a […]

November 8, 2022

A group of Communication Service Providers (CSPs) servicing the Asia Pacific region announced Tuesday a shared investment of $300 million to develop a 6,000 kilometer (km) submarine cable system in Southeast Asia they’re calling the Asia Link Cable (ALC). The […]

September 19, 2022

The digital world has become relentless in transforming human experiences. High-speed low-latency data connectivity and rich, immersive digital content is influencing and shaping the future of societies and industries. Key to the rapid growth in data connectivity are fiber broadband […]

September 13, 2022

Inflationary pressures continue to affect AT&T’s business, but the company is seeing strong wireless growth and CEO John Stankey said that there is no single factor enabling this, but instead a multitude of them, from its FirstNet contract to its […]

August 24, 2022

A new report on the status of U.S. broadband looks at how fiber deployments are correlated with several aspects of quality of life, and concludes that access to high-speed broadband is becoming increasingly influential in how people decide where to […]

June 27, 2022

AT&T is playing the long game as it looks at its infrastructure investments, says Jeff McElfresh, COO of AT&T—and that doesn’t include leading with Fixed Wireless Access as its go-to offer for home and business broadband. McElfresh emphasized that 5G […]

June 14, 2022

Nokia used this week’s Fiber Connect conference to announce a “network-in-a-box” fiber to the home (FTTH) kit aimed at rural broadband service providers. Nokia’s Broadband Relief Kit builds a town network of up to 1,000 homes. Nokia said that it’s […]

April 25, 2022

Greetings from Missouri, Nebraska, and the Dominican Republic, where the staff enjoyed a corporate retreat over the Easter holiday. There’s a lot to cover this week, so we will be very brief in the market analysis commentary. AT&T and Verizon […]

January 10, 2022

In the run up to its activation of C-Band spectrum for consumer and business services, Verizon executives discussed the network and go-to-market activities it sees as foundational to delivering differentiated, monetizable network-enabled experiences. EVP and CTO Kyle Malady likened the […]

November 19, 2021

In a recent trial, Nokia and Orange used the Nokia PSE-Vs, the vendor’s fifth generation super coherent optics, to support end-to-end 400 Gbps services across the carrier’s network. The trial was performed in real-world conditions and over a 914 km […]

October 27, 2021

The information and communication technologies (ICT) sector has been the foundation supporting the growth of modern societies. However, especially as we will grow more dependent on them during the Industry 4.0 era, ICT and the way we leverage them must […]

September 29, 2021

AT&T has lined up an expanded fiber deal with Corning. Based on the new deal, Corning is ramping up optical cable manufacturing in North Carolina, investing $150 million and initially adding 200 jobs. The two companies said that the fiber […]

September 28, 2021

During the virtual Goldman Sachs Communicopia conference, AT&T CEO John Stankey provided a wide-ranging update on the company’s ambitions to continue its investments in fiber and 5G wireless networks (and grow its subscriber base) while also executing on its aggressive […]

August 13, 2021

AT&T will not be able to build out as much fiber as it had planned to deploy this year due to supply chain issues, the carrier’s CFO said earlier this week. Pascal Desroches, AT&T’s senior EVP and CFO, said at […]