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FTTH Council MENA Appoints Juan C. Colina, Regional Director, Middle East, Corning Optical Communications as its New President

The FTTH Council MENA, founded in 2011, is an industry organization that works to accelerate fibre to the home (FTTH) adoption. It promotes the benefits of fibre as an enabling technology for services that enhance quality of life, contribute to a better environment and boost competitiveness for consumers and businesses. As president of the FTTH […]

INT drops restrictions on TT, incumbent opts for status quo

Facilitating the move was a re-reading of Tunisia’s primary piece of legislation for the sector, the Telecommunications Code, rather than a modification of the legislation or the allocation of a new licence. Hichem Besbes, head of the National Telecommunications Authority (Instance Nationale des Telecommunications, INT) noted: ‘According to the former interpretation of the Telecommunications Code, Tunisie […]

Prysmian to acquire General Cable in deal worth $3 billion

“The acquisition of General Cable represents a landmark moment for Prysmian Group and a strategic and unique opportunity to create value for our shareholders and customers,” said Valerio Battista, Prysmian’s chief executive in a statement. The deal values General Cable at around $30.00 (£22.50) per share and has been unanimously ratified by both boards. […]

AS the new vision 2030 Roadmap takes shape, Saudi business leaders prepare their firms to reap long-term benefits

Ogero head stakes reputation on 50 Mbps internet by 2018

“By the end of 2018, this is our objective: to have 85 percent of internet users in Lebanon enjoy … [at least] 50 Mbps,” Kreidieh told the CIO Lebanon Association’s annual conference, held at Beirut Airport. “The international benchmark is 35 Mbps.” Fifty Mbps would put Lebanon roughly on par with the U.K. and Germany, […]

Ex Tunisie Telecom exec returns as CEO

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 […]

Government allocates USD98m for Ogero ahead of fibre push

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 […]

Verizon’s fiber initiative drives Prysmian to invest $15M in North American operations

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 […]

Corning’s Weeks: We’re on track to achieve $5B in optical sales by 2020

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. […]

OBC to cover 85% of Muscat with FTTH by 2020

Oman News Agency cites the company’s Director General of Projects, Salim Bin Said Al Alawi as saying that OBC will cover an additional 60,000 residential and commercial units this year, adding to its existing footprint of around 150,000 in Muscat, and representing around 55% of Muscat Governorate. In the first half of the year, OBC’s wholesale fibre-to-the-home […]

Verizon seeks FCC permission to retire copper in 8 markets, emphasizes call to revise processes

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 […]

How do you successfully launch FTTH?

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 […]

Internet : Ogero offre à Beit Misk la fibre optique

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 […]

Très haut débit : des députés veulent la fibre pour tous en 2025

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 […]

R&M delivers Jordan’s first FTTH project at Aqaba Saraya

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 […]