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Google to buy $39m Provo fiber service for $1
If the deal between Provo and Google doesn't work out, the tech giant can sell the network back for a dollar.
S'pore enterprise fiber uptake not 'as fast' as hoped
Despite tighter requirements in 2013 for service activations, retail service providers say they continue to lose enterprise customers due to installation delays and lack of communication from relevant parties.
Google Fiber approved for expansion
Google's high-speed Internet service is ready to go in a second location.
Spain to get €1bn fibre to the home roll-out
Vodafone and Orange are teaming up to take fibre to six million Spanish premises by 2017.
S'pore fiber users not jumping on home networks
Despite growing prevalence of fiber-to-the-home, many do not see it as a driver for adopting home networks and prefer other methods of sharing media such as cloud services or physical storage.
NBN Co signs Daly deal for apartment fibre
Daly International has secured a deal with NBN Co to get all the groundwork done in order to connect units in Queensland and Western Australia to the National Broadband Network fibre.
France to invest €20bn in high-speed broadband for the entire country
French president François Hollande wants very high-speed broadband to reach every household in the country by 2023 - a plan that will need private as well as public investment.
The future is 400Gbps: How Europe is testing 17Tbps links to cope with data explosion
France Telecom is dipping its toe in the water of 400Gbps optical networking links to support our growing thirst for cloud and multimedia - but it won't be rushed.
BT's latest wave of fibre adds 1.2 million premises and 99 exchanges
BT is continuing to fibre-enable new exchanges, with nearly a hundred more in Scotland, the Midlands and the north of England to go live before next year.
Two men jailed for 16 months over BT copper heist
The theft of hundreds of metres of copper cable led to broadband outages in Middlesex and Sussex last year.
No cash for broadband: Europe's super-fast future torpedoed by budget cuts
'No new broadband investment,' says Europe's digital chief - the market will have to do the legwork in expanding broadband coverage now. Still, at least there's some funding left for e-invoicing.
Microsoft eyes white spaces to bring broadband to rural Kenya
Through a pilot project in Kenya, Microsoft hopes to show that white spaces offer a viable, low-cost way of extending broadband access to unserved and underserved communities in Africa.
Liberty Global buys U.K. cable firm Virgin Media for $23.3B
In other 'major acquisition of the day' news, one U.S. media conglomerate struck a deal to buy the British cable media group for around $23.3bn.
4K UHD TV needs big pipes, not a pipe dream
The challenges in delivering extremely high-definition content over the Internet is not an issue of display cost, it's the limitations of our existing broadband infrastructure.
Net neutrality? Let the market decide, says Europe's digital chief
Europe's digital chief Neelie Kroes supports the right of ISPs to choose how they manage internet traffic that flows over their networks.