Fibre / Fiber (FTTN, FTTC, FTTB, FTTH, FTTK, FTTP) News

STA of Andorra Deploys Comverse IPTV Solution to Enhance its Triple Play Offering
Feb 4, 2008 – Comverse has announced that STA, the Andorran Telecommunications Operator, has enhanced its triple play offering by deploying the Comverse IPTV solution.
News categories: Comverse, Servei de Telecomunicacions d'Andorra, Andorra, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV

Bruce Telecom unveils digital TV
Feb 1, 2008 – Bruce Telecom has officially launched its new digital television service. Bruce Telecom is the first company in Canada to use MPEG-4 technology.
News categories: Bruce Telecom, Brochure, Broadband, Canada, Digital TV, DVR, Fibre, IPTV, Set Top Box

Verizon Caps Successful Year With Strong 4Q Results
Jan 28, 2008 – Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) has reported continued strong quarterly financial and operational results. Verizon added 226,000 net new FiOS TV customers to give 943,000 total FiOS TV customers at year-end.
News categories: Verizon, Earnings Release, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

AT&T Delivers Strong Fourth Quarter, Reaffirms 2008 and Multi-Year Outlook
Jan 24, 2008 – At the end of the fourth quarter, subscribers to AT&T (NYSE:T) U-verse, the company's next-generation IP-based video service, totaled 231,000, up from 126,000 three months earlier.
News categories: AT&T, Earnings Release, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Results, USA

Tilgin Delivers Next-generation Home Gateways to Dansk Bredbånd's Fiber-Based VoIP and IPTV Offerings
Jan 14, 2008 – Dansk Bredbånd is investing $550,000 (US) in new next-generation Tilgin (STO:TILG) Home Gateways for its national roll out of triple play services.
News categories: Tilgin, Dansk Bredbånd, Broadband, Denmark, Digital TV, Fibre, Gateway, IPTV, Set Top Box

Verizon Extends Industry Lead in Broadband and Video With G-PON
Jan 8, 2008 – Verizon (NYSE:VZ) technicians are upgrading FiOS with next-generation electronics to dramatically enhance the speeds, and thus the capabilities, of Verizon's all-fiber-optic FiOS broadband, video and voice network.
News categories: Verizon, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, USA

Auvitek's AU8522 Demodulator Selected by Dasan for Deployment in Korea Telecom Megapass TV STB
Jan 4, 2008 – Auvitek and Dasan have announced that Korea Telecom's Megapass FTTH service is being widely deployed utilizing Dasan's IPTV set-top box incorporating Auvitek's AU8522 ATSC/NTSC/QAM demodulator.
News categories: Auvitek, Dasan, ATSC 3, CES2025, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Korea, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

INTRACOM TELECOM Delivers fs/cdn™ IPTV Solution to Bruce Telecom
Dec 18, 2007 – JSC SITRONICS (LSE: SITR) has announced that a part of its INTRACOM TELECOM subsidiary, the US-based Conklin-INTRACOM, is delivering its fs|cdnTM MPEG-4 IPTV Solution to Bruce Telecom, a provider of telecommunication services in Canada.
News categories: INTRACOM, Bruce Telecom, SITRONICS, Canada, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV

Algérie Télécom Becomes First Operator to Pioneer Fibre-to-the-Home Strategy
Dec 10, 2007 – Algérie Télécom is deploying an FTTH network from French vendor Sagem Communication and on 15 December it will be launching a triple play offer with voice, broadband Internet and television.
News categories: Sagem, Algérie Télécom, Algeria, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV