Alcatel-Lucent and BT today announced a G.fast consumer trial in northeast England. The BT trial will cover up to 2000 homes in Gosforth, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and will last six to nine months. It comes after a smaller pilot conducted by BT and Alcatel-Lucent around Hethersett in Norfolk, earlier this year. Alcatel-Lucent will devote to the […]
Broadband
Comcast Issues Large-Scale Xfinity Speed Increases
Comcast announced a big round of speed upgrades for Xfinity customers across a dozen states. Performance Pro and Blast Pro speed tier subscribers in Arizona; Colorado; Houston, Texas; Idaho; Kansas; Minnesota; Missouri; New Mexico; Oregon; Utah; Washington and Wisconsin will see their peak download speeds increased from 50 Mbps to 75 Mbps and 105 Mbps […]
Briefs: Siklu, Stephouse, Altera, Muvi, Ericsson, Entel
Siklu has been selected by Portland ISP Stephouse Networks as the primary supplier for Gigabit wireless connectivity. Following a number of projects with Siklu mmW solutions in the northwest region, Stephouse has again selected Siklu to deliver high throughput with simple and fast deployments. Stephouse will utilize Siklu’s full line of EtherHaul millimeter wave radios […]
Alcatel-Lucent Brings Broadband to East Poland
Alcatel-Lucent announced that it is collaborating with the Polish government and local authorities to bring ultra-broadband access to up to 8 million underserved people in eastern Poland, through the deployment of the company’s IP/MPLS and optical networking technology. The project, initiated by local Polish authorities and co-funded by the European Union, continues work already in […]
Chinese Broadband Market Causes Growth in CPE Market
IHS Infonetics has upgraded its projections for growth in the broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) market, which includes DSL, cable, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), residential gateways and mobile broadband CPE. The company has projected that its 2019 worldwide broadband CPE forecast will value the CPE market at $12.4 billion. “The primary source for raising our global broadband […]
White House Unveils Broadband Opportunity Report
The White House is coming out with a new set of recommendations aimed toward fostering increased broadband deployment, competition, and adoption. Through the Broadband Opportunity Council, formed in March 2015, President Obama’s office has put forth a series of overarching recommendations. The Council is suggesting the White House move forward with efforts to: modernize Federal […]
BT Plans to Offer 300 Mbps Broadband to 10 Million Homes by 2020
In a release yesterday, BT CEO Gavin Patterson laid out a number of benchmarks his company will be aiming for as it rolls out broadband at increasing speeds in the United Kingdom. The promises made by Patterson start with the U.K. government’s plan from earlier this year to roll out 2 Mbps to all U.K. […]
Cable Broadband Equipment Revenue Falls 2%
The second quarter for the broadband market was a little softer than usual. IHS says cable broadband equipment revenue fell two percent quarter-over-quarter, during a second quarter that is historically strong for cable broadband capex. But the slight dip isn’t reason for concern, IHS says. “Right now, the cable broadband market is like seeing the […]
Windstream Opens Up 100 Mbps Broadband in 250 New Markets
Windstream says it’s completed a series of service upgrades that will allow it to offer up to 100 Mbps broadband service to residential and small business customers in 250 new markets across 16 states. The operator says additional upgrades underway will bring 100 Mbps speeds to about 600 more markets by the end of 2015. […]
Germany Promises 50Mbps Broadband To All Citizens By 2018
Germany has promised that all of its citizens will have access to 50 Mbps broadband by 2018, which is 10 times faster than the global average broadband speed, according to the Next Web. This would make Germany home to the fastest average Internet speed in the world. South Korea, which according to State of the […]