Fiber

The Colombian ICT Ministry, through the social program Compartel, published specifications of the National Fiber Optic Project, which aims to deploy the technology in at least new 400 municipalities and reach …

France Telecom – Orange | July 21, 2011 | Press Release France Telecom-Orange has published its third party-operator access offer for its FTTH fiber-optic network outside very-dense areas, and has …

TIM Brazil had signed a contract with LT Amazon consortium to use their tower transmission lines and power substations to transport TIM cables across 27 cities in the states of …

Telebrás and TIM Brazil announced on July 13 that they have closed a deal to deliver mobile Internet to 1,000 Brazilian cities by the end of 2012. It’s part of a …

Swisscom | July 11, 2011 | Press Release Winterthur Public Utilities and Swisscom to cooperate on fibre-optic expansion, providing Winterthur with super-fast Internet access in the years to come. Four …

GlobeNet | March 24, 2011 | Press Release Delivering the Lowest Latency International Capacity Between the Americas BOCA RATON, FL–(Marketwire – March 24, 2011) –  GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider …

Wall Street Journal | February 11, 2011 | Kejal Vyas CARACAS (Dow Jones)–Venezuela’s state-run telecommunications operator, Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, or Cantv, said Friday it has finished connecting …

BBC | February 9, 2011 Cuba has welcomed the arrival of an undersea fibre-optic cable linking it to Venezuela as a blow to the US economic embargo. The cable will …

AOL News | January 24, 2011 | Lauren Frayer One of the world’s most unplugged countries is about to get high-speed Internet, courtesy of an old friend. A specialized ship …

Bloomberg | January 21, 2011 | Jason Clenfield and Maki Shiraki  NEC Corp., Japan’s largest maker of phone-network equipment, won an order valued at about 30 billion yen ($362 million) …

Bloomberg | January 7, 2011 | Eduardo Thomson Telefonica Chile SA, Chile’s largest telephone company, plans to invest $700 million this year, Diario Financiero said. The company plans to invest …

Not long after the truce between India’s famous Ambani brothers – who own Reliance Communications (RCOM) and Reliance Industries Limited respectively – the younger brother, Anil Ambani, head of RCOM, has sold off his firm’s tower business to GTL Infrastructure for $11 billion. This is the first time a non-telco player has gained a foothold in the highly lucrative Indian telecom infrastructure business.