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, ...

The National Broadband Network (NBN) company should increase the extent of its fibre network, providing as many customers as possible with fibre to the premises (FttP) and fibre to the distribution ...

Households using high-speed NBN plans on fibre to the premises or hybrid fibre coaxial connections are now experiencing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...