Tunisie Telecom this week confirmed the appointment of Mohamed Fadhel Kraiem as its new chairman and chief executive. Kraiem rejoins the Tunisian telco after a spell in retail; he has served as chief executive of Monoprix since February 2016. He initially joined Tunisie Telecom in mid-2010 as its deputy CEO in charge of commercial and […]
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This expansion will enable the company to make good on a $300 million contract it won from Verizon to build a new fiber network that will support a mix of wireless 5G, business and consumer services across multiple markets. Prysmian will supply nearly 11 million miles of ribbon and loose tube cables. News of this expansion should […]
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CEO Wendell Weeks told investors during the company’s third-quarter earnings call that its current growth has set it on the path to reach this multiyear sales goal for optical communications. “We are growing at twice the rate of the telecommunications industry with global leaders like Verizon turning to us in support of their vision,” Weeks said. […]
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Telecoms minister Jamal Jarrah said last month that his ministry and Ogero plan to start the fibre-optic project within a few weeks, with the aim of boosting internet access speeds to at least 50Mbps ‘across the country’. Previously, the Ministry of Telecommunications (MoT) and Ogero have said they will implement an extensive fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) network […]
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Tout faire pour éviter que le déploiement de la fibre ne se solde, une fois encore, par une énième fracture numérique. Tel est le mot d’ordre du dernier rapport de la commission des affaires économiques de l’Assemblée nationale. Dévoilé ce mercredi, ce document, qui fait le point sur la couverture numérique du territoire, souhaite que […]
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In a series of filings published by the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau, the service provider has requested to replace aging copper with FTTH infrastructure. The locations in the filings are several towns and cities in the the legacy ILEC markets of Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maryland and Delaware. Verizon said if these are approved […]
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But within markets with strong price competition, where different networks exist side-by-side – notably in the densest zones – investing in FTTH could prove risky for operators in the short term, especially while the regulatory framework is not completely secure. Indeed, how is it possible to offset the cost of an FTTH connection which, depending […]
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Aqaba Saraya, a 634,000 luxury mixed-use tourism and leisure destination located on the shores of the Red Sea in the Gulf of Aqaba in Jordan, has become the first in the country to roll out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connectivity. The deployment of R&M’s cabling solutions was delivered by the system integrator partner in Jordan, Optimiza. Optimiza […]
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Beit Misk a officiellement inauguré le 16 septembre son nouveau réseau « fiber-to-the-home » (FTTH) – en français « fibre optique jusqu’à l’utilisateur ». Quelque 400 appartements du complexe résidentiel du Metn-Nord vont bénéficier d’une vitesse de téléchargement pouvant aller jusqu’à 1 giga bit par seconde (gbps). L’organisme public Ogero a pris en charge l’installation du réseau de fibre […]
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