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

Japan's NTT to offer high-definition digital TV via fiber optic lines
Oct 19, 2007 – Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp will start offering high-definition digital television broadcasting service in March by enhancing its fiber-optic network, the Nikkei business daily has reported.
News categories: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Nikkei Net Interactive, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Japan

nTelos Launches the New Generation of Television
Oct 15, 2007 – Powered by Microsoft Mediaroom, nTelos Video provides an alternative to cable and satellite TV, offering video entertainment services with more than 200 all-digital channels and 18 high-definition channels at no extra charge.
News categories: Microsoft, nTelos, David Maccarelli, Broadband, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DVR, Fibre, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, USA

Iceland's Síminn selects Alcatel-Lucent as GPON fiber-to-the-home supplier
Oct 11, 2007 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has been selected by Síminn, Iceland's market leader in telecommunication, as its GPON fiber-to-the-home supplier. Alcatel-Lucent's solution will enable Síminn to deliver advanced broadband services such as high-definition television (HDTV), IPTV, video on demand (VoD) and high-speed Internet.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, Síminn, Broadband, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Fibre, Iceland, IPTV

IPTV Deployments More Than Double In a Year as Broadband Continues to Achieve Strong Growth
Oct 8, 2007 – The DSL Forum today announced new broadband and IPTV statistics at the Broadband World Forum Europe in Berlin. The statistics, prepared for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic, show that the number of people using IPTV services increased by 179 per cent in the 12 months to 30 June 2007.
News categories: Point Topic, DSL Forum, Africa, Asia, BBWF, Broadband, Canada, China, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Europe, Fibre, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Spain, Subscribers, UK, USA

Neuf Cegetel Selects Alcatel-Lucent's GPON Solution for Very High Speed Services
Oct 8, 2007 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris: ALU) (NYSE: ALU) has announced that Neuf Cegetel, France's leading alternative service provider, has selected it to deploy a Gigabit Passive Optical Networking solution (GPON) for very high-speed services.
News categories: Neuf Cegetel, Alcatel-Lucent, BBWF, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, France, IPTV

Mountain Telephone will Bring IPTV to Kentucky with Fujitsu Optical Networking Solutions
Sep 6, 2007 – Fujitsu Network Communications has announced that Mountain Telephone, a rural cooperative communications provider, has deployed its FLASHWAVE® optical networking products and NETSMART® management solution to deliver Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services to West Liberty, Kentucky.
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, USA

More Than 100,000 Customers Choose AT&T U-verse Over Cable
Sep 5, 2007 – AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced that AT&T U-verse TV has surpassed 100,000 customers, marking another significant milestone for the nation's largest deployment of Internet Protocol-based television (IPTV) service.
News categories: AT&T, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Subscribers, USA

Orange Slovensko launches triple-play services
Sep 4, 2007 – Slovakia's largest mobile network operator by subscribers, Orange Slovensko, has announced the commercial launch of triple-play fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband internet, digital TV and fixed line voice telephony services.
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Slovakia

Canadian CLEC Becomes IPTV-ready with Calix C7 Platform
Aug 28, 2007 – Calix has announced that Mornington Communications Co-operative Ltd., an ILEC and CLEC in Ontario, Canada, has selected the Calix C7multiservice access platform (MSAP) and the Calix Management System (CMS) to enable a wide array of new services.
News categories: Broadband, Canada, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV