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President Macron: Vive le Broadband! French president Emmanual Macron encouraged service providers to deploy ultra-broadband across the European nation by 2020, bringing forward the target date by two years, Reuters reported. The recently elected leader of France pledged to create by year-end a carrot-and-stick policy of rewards and penalties for telecom operators, the report said. Macron shared his €50 billion (about $58 billion) infrastructure plan in a speech at the Sénat; this budget includes funding for regions where it's not economically viable for private CSPs to deploy ultra-broadband, he said. Even before his presentation, Orange has heavily invested in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). Other French operators, including SFR Group (a division of Altice) and Iliad, also are spending billions of euros to deploy FTTH. Related posts:
— Alison Diana, Editor, UBB2020. Follow us on Twitter @UBB2020 or @alisoncdiana. Home page image source: Gouvernement français |
In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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