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PLDT Philippines to boost FTTH reach by 80%
PLDT, the Philippines telco and digital services provider, plans to expand its FTTH network by some 80% to 4.4 million homes passed by end of 2017. The expansion will add 1.9 million homes passed to PLDT's fibre network, which covered 2.5 million homes nationwide at the end of 2016.
French wind farms pick Prysmian
Réseau de Transport d'Électricité (RTE) has awarded Prysmian a contract worth over €300 million with to develop submarine cable links to connect the Fécamp, Calvados and Saint Nazaire offshore wind farms to the mainland power grid. Prysmian plans to use its Cable Enterprise DP 2 vessel for the marine installation.
"We are proud to support RTE in this important challenge" stated Massimo Battaini, SVP Energy Projects. "Prysmian is already widely involved in the provision of reliable and more sustainable power transmission connections in France, through the realization of the France-Spain and the Italy-France interconnectors.”
ASA UK Investigates ISP’s ‘Fibre Broadband’ Advertising
In the UK advertised ‘fibre broadband’ package can be anything from full-fibre FTTH/P services to significantly slower FTTC. The UK Advertising Standards Authority has announced that it will be reviewing this.
“An advertised fibre connection should be entirely fibre – the fibre to the cabinet options favoured for much of the UK roll-out should not count,” says Matt Warman, Government MP.
Prysmian wins UK East Anglia One project
The East Anglia One offshore windfarm project consists of 102 turbines, which can generate power for 500,000 homes. Prysmian will provide two 85 km three-core submarine cables with embedded fibre under a £27 million contract.
The company will also supply and install a 220 kV double circuit across some 37 km, from the Bawdsey shore landing to a substation in Bramford and manufacture underground HV cables. These will be installed by Prysmian’s UK installation division between October 2017 and September 2018.
Point Topic Broadband Tariff Map available
The map, developed by Point Topic, shows how global median fixed broadband tariffs changed across between the end of 2015 and end of 2016. This is the first index of its kind, with findings based on analysis of more than 5,000 fixed broadband tariffs available from Point Topic.
During the period described, median tariffs dropped in, amongst others, The USA, Australia, Russian Federation, parts of Scandinavia and Europe whilst increasing in Brazil, Canada and China. The interactive version is available here.
Prysmian deploys highest capacity underwater fibre in Hong Kong
An underwater FlexTube® cable containing 1,728 optical fibres has been successfully deployed by Australian telecommunications provider Superloop for its TKO Express project. This provides a broadband connection between the Siu Sai Wan area on Hong Kong Island and the mainland Tseung Kwan O (TKO) Industrial Estate data centre hub.
The base cable was made in Calais, France. In the Dee Why, Sydney factory, moisture barriers and aluminium tape layers were applied, along with double armouring layers of wrapped steel wires. A final sheath was applied at the Group’s Liverpool plant, west of Sydney. Manufacturing took almost six months. “We are extremely proud to be part of such an amazing project, to contribute to history by designing and making something that perfectly fits the need of our customer,” said Philippe Vanhille, Senior Vice President Telecom at Prysmian Group.
BSG UK Warns of Brexit Risk for Digital Comms
Broadband Stakeholders Group (BSG) has called for the UK to maintain a type of regulation similar to the EU’s State Aid rules in order to protect broadband market competition.
The group claims that following the UK’s separation from the EU, the telecoms sector may risk losing access to funding schemes that support broadband deployment and vital emerging technologies such as 5G and IoT.
Latvia heads EU FTTH ranking, Serbia & Austria join
The number of Fibre to the Home (FTTH) and Fibre to the Building (FTTB) subscribers in Europe increased by 23% over the first nine months of 2016, reaching nearly 44.3 million FTTH/B subscribers. Homes passed increased by 17%, reaching more than 148 million in EU39* at end-September 2016, according to the latest FTTH market panorama announced at the FTTH Conference 2017 in Marseille.
Russia leads with more than 17 million subscribers and the other largest markets remain, Spain, France and Romania. Two new economies also entered the FTTH Ranking: Austria & Serbia.
* EU 39: Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and UK.
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