Telstra has released the details of new fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network plans, declaring that a commercial pilot of the system will commence in new Queensland estates around June of this year.

Fiber to the premises extends fiber cabling all the way to homes or businesses. Because fiber provides a significant bandwidth boost over twisted-pair or coaxial connections used in the last mile, ...

Three million homes and businesses could have access to fibre-to-the-premises broadband with speeds of up to 1Gbps within two years, under plans from BT's infrastructure arm Openreach. While the UK's ...

BT aims to accelerate FTTP build with a target of 20 million premises passed by the mid- to late-2020s. BT’s FTTP network covers 2.6 million premises. FTTP network covered an additional 1.3 million ...

After years of 5G chest-thumping, the major US operators are now looking to outdo each other in the fibre access network sector Verizon’s plan to acquire fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network operator ...

Fixed broadband has been a success story for the UK over the past two years, with gigabit connectivity landing in places historically underserved by broadband, but research from Point Topic has shown ...

FTTP networks could be used as sensors to help other utility providers identify problems in their networks. A technology called DFOS (distributed fiber optic sensing) works by measuring changes in ...

Fibre to the premises, or FTTP, gives you a direct connection to the internet via a fibre-optic cable carrying data encoded in pulses of light. For most homes and businesses, it’s the fastest ...

In a keynote address at the Broadband World Forum trade fair, currently under way in London, digital and culture minister Matt Hancock has called for the market to lead on the national roll-out of ...

Regional Bell operating companies say they will begin deploying fiber-to-the-premises technology next year, a rather speedy time frame considering that the proposal for FTTP equipment was issued only ...

Tollgrade Communications has announced the LoopCare Test Operations Support System (OSS), which supports the testing of voice services in a fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network. The LoopCare release 2 ...