Much of the discussion about internet connectivity in the last few years has been about the move from the old copper cables that are essentially the...
Japanese internet provider offers twice the speed of Google Fiber for less money
A Japanese internet service provider has begun offering broadband plans with 2Gbps downloads and 1Gbps uploads to residents in Tokyo and six...
Sony Just Launched a Ludicrously Fast Internet in Japan
So-net Entertainment, a Sony-backed Japan ISP, has launched a fiber-based Internet service that reaches download speeds of 2 Gbps, making it the...
World Broadband Users Hit 643.7 Million Fuelled by Fibre Optic Connectivity
The latest Point Topic and Broadband Forum statistics for Q4-2012 reveal that the total number of global broadband subscribers has grown to...
Japanese ISP launches 2Gbps home internet service
An ISP in Tokyo, Japan has launched its 2Gbps broadband service, which it says is the fastest in the world for home use, PC World reports. So-net...
ETNO meets Vice-President Antonio Tajani
Brussels – Luigi Gambardella, Chairman of the Executive Board of ETNO (the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ association), has...
EU blocks German plan for higher fixed phone rates
The German telecoms regulator (BNetzA) proposed raising the termination fees to three times the average rates in many parts of Europe to compensate...
Closing the gap to improve the capacity of existing fiber optic networks
A team of researchers working through Australia’s Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) has developed data encoding...
Europe’s fibre infrastructure gaining pace through investment stimuli
During the last few years Europe has made considerable progress towards building national Next Generation Networks based on fibre infrastructure....
Europe’s fibre infrastructure gaining pace through investment stimuli
During the last few years Europe has made considerable progress towards building national Next Generation Networks based on fibre infrastructure....