Tagged: Fibre Infrastructure Investment
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New EU rules to cut red tape from broadband rollouts – move could save €60bn News
26.03.2013 European Commission vice-president responsible for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes today revealed proposed new rules that will cut the cost of rolling out high-speed internet...Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Infrastructure Management, Government, Engineering, Digital Media, CIO -
Airfibre launches B2B broadband services across Cork City News
25.03.2013 High capacity wireless broadband provider Airfibre has deployed its 1Mbps up to 1Gbps broadband service in Cork. -
Sea Fibre Networks expands link from Dublin to Frankfurt News
18.02.2013 Carrier-neutral fibre player Sea Fibre Networks has expanded its reach to Frankfurt, Germany, one of Europe’s major financial hubs. -
Eircom next-gen network is future proofed for fibre-to-the-home - CEO News
21.02.2013 Eircom CEO Herb Hribar has revealed that the fibre-connected street cabinets that will enable 1.2m homes and businesses in Ireland to get 50Mbps to 70Mbps broadband by 2014 have... -
Eircom expands fibre rollout plan to 1.2m homes, Q2 revenues fall 6pc News
21.02.2013 Despite falling revenues, Eircom this morning revealed it has expanded its fibre rollout plan from 1m homes to 1.2m homes – or 60pc of homes and businesses in Ireland. -
Failure to invest in fibre broadband could make Europe an economic backwater News
15.02.2013 European nations and their respective incumbents’ inability to embark on ambitious fibre infrastructure plans that will prepare their countries for the 21st century and beyond... -
Telecoms industry bewildered as ComReg decides to split market News
12.02.2013 Ireland’s telecoms watchdog ComReg is to press ahead with a controversial wholesale decision that will divide the telecoms market into areas where a variety of price margin... -
Kroes’ disappointment as 2020 broadband plan for rural areas potentially in tatters News
11.02.2013 The European Union’s decision to chop €7bn off the €9.2bn earmarked to meet the Digital Agenda goals of 100Mbps for half of Europe could impact on countries' ability to deliver...Categories: Telecommunications, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Internet, Digital Business, Communications -
Eircom agrees to allow other telcos to access its fibre broadband network News
31.01.2013 Any fibre Eircom puts in the ground it will have to open up to other licensed operators. That’s the message that came from ComReg today as it ruled Eircom has significant market...Categories: Web, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Digital Media, Communications -
Transatlantic fibre player Hibernia Networks completes US$52.5m refinancing News
17.01.2013 Transatlantic network services player Hibernia Networks has just completed a US$52.5m debt refinancing, with new lenders Fortress Investment group LLC and Bridges Bank taking part. -
Hibernia Atlantic changes its name to Hibernia Networks News
16.01.2013 Transatlantic fibre broadband carrier Hibernia Atlantic has changed its name to Hibernia Networks to reflect its increased focus on high bandwidth connectivity solutions in the... -
Pan-European project to revolutionise broadband delivery gets €8.1m in funding News
09.01.2013 A pan-European telecoms project aimed at transforming how broadband is delivered using fibre optics has been awarded €8.1m in EU funding. The project involves research groups at... -
The year in comms - the arrival of 4G and superfast broadband is imminent News
24.12.2012 The year 2012 has been a pivotal year in the development of the telecoms industry in Ireland as the first of the various superfast broadband services began to debut in the... -
Dark fibre motorway survey completed – vital first step towards next gen networks News
08.12.2012 Never mind all the talk about fibre networks, what really needs to be talked about is dark fibre – the high capacity cable that will future-proof Ireland to be at the crossroads... -
Eircom’s quad-play future: TV services to come in wake of fibre and 4G News
07.12.2012 Eircom’s new CEO Herb Hribar and its new CFO Richard Moat have revealed that Eircom is planning new TV services to compete with UPC and Sky and plans to create a ‘data... -
ESB in Emerald Bridge JV to connect its fibre network to major UK cities News
04.12.2012 ESB Telecoms has forged a deal with Geo Networks in the UK that will see the ESB’s 1,300km fibre network in Ireland connect with all the major cities across the UK via the... -
Red tape and trench digging could cost up to 80pc of Digital Agenda rollout News
13.11.2012 In revealing measures to ensure the European Commission’s 2020 Digital Agenda targets of 100Mbps broadband connectivity for 50pc of Europe’s population can be reached, a new... -
Alcatel-Lucent CTO Marcus Weldon: nations will need to plan for fibre everywhere (video) News
07.11.2012 While the future is undoubtedly multi-screen, multi-device and wireless broadband everywhere, sophisticated fibre networks connected to energy-efficient cell devices will be... -
BT Group Q2 revenues fall 9pc to stg£4.4bn – plans to accelerate fibre rollout News
01.11.2012 BT Group plc this morning reported second-quarter revenues of stg£4.4bn, down 9pc on the year before, and earnings of stg£1.4bn (EBIDTA). The company’s CEO Ian Livingston said... -
UPC delivers fibre-powered On Demand TV to more Irish regional towns News
11.10.2012 Cable TV and broadband operator UPC has revealed its new On Demand TV services are being expanded in Ireland to Athlone, Carlow, Clonmel, Kilkenny, Mullingar, Navan, Portlaoise,...