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Nokia and Fibrus, a provider of broadband services across Northern Ireland and the English county of Cumbria, have signed a five-year agreement to deploy Nokia's Deepfield analytics solution across the Fibrus network.

Indian optical and digital solutions company STL Tech has partnered with Belgian fibre infrastructure provider Wyre to support the development of a multi-gigabit FTTH network.

Telecoms equipment vendor Nokia has won a deal with South African FTTH provider Fibertime to deploy its fibre solution to underserved regions of South Africa.

Telefónica Spain and Vodafone Spain have created a joint venture called FibreCo for sharing the country's FTTH network, with Telefónica Spain is to have 63% of the capital and Vodafone Spain 37%.

South Reach Networks (SRN) unveiled a specialised suite of products geared to support the FTTH industry within Florida.

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Information and communication technology solutions provider ZTE has collaborated with Thai telecom provider True to develop an optical Wi-Fi solution for the Wyndham Royal Lee Phuket in Thailand.

Wholesale broadband operator NBN Co has completed a field trial with Finnish telco vendor Nokia using three generations of passive optical network (PON) technologies—GPON, XGS PON, and 25GS PON—over its fibre to the premises (FTTP) network, proving its feasibility to support future multi-gigabit services.

Finnish telco equipment vendor Nokia unveiled its 25G PON technology on the Lightspan SF-8M sealed fibre access node, which cable operators may deploy to respond to increased bandwidth demand by activating 10G or 25G on their existing PON network.

Finnish telecommunications vendor Nokia has teamed up with the fifth largest cable operator in the US Mediacom to build PON networks to provide broadband service to rural, underserved communities in the country.

Wholesale broadband provider NBN Co has raised $850 million from its latest Australian green bond issuance in the domestic debt capital markets, which will be allocated to its sustainability projects and fibre-to-the-node to fibre-to-the-premises network upgrade program.

Wholesale broadband provider NBN Co has reported that it has generated $1.31 billion in revenue during the first quarter of FY23, up by 4% on the corresponding period in FY22.

The Federal Court has ordered that the largest internet service providers—Telstra, Optus, and TPG Telecom—need to pay penalties amounting to $33.5 million after each companies admitted false and misleading representations when promoting certain NBN internet plans, according to the ACCC.

London-based internet service provider Community Fibre has secured £985 million ($1.7 billion) facility to launch a full-fibre broadband network to 2.2 million London homes by the end of 2024.

Finnish telecommunications vendor Nokia has partnered with Ready.net—the creator of Broadband.money platform—to connect local broadband providers with unserved and underserved communities in the US.

Sales of PON equipment for fibre-to-the-home deployments, cable broadband access equipment, and fixed wireless CPE will increase from 2022 to 2026 at US$23.6 billion ($33.8 billion) as service providers look to expand both reach of their broadband services to customers’ homes as well as the quality of those services within their homes, according to a report by research firm Dell’Oro Group.

The Federal Government needs to draft a statement of expectation as to what it expects to happen to the national broadband network next, after the network rollout is officially over at the end of the month, veteran telecommunications analyst Paul Budde says, adding that otherwise Australia will continue to languish in the broadband wilderness.

Rolling out fibre to the home is an expensive exercise and alternative methods need to be found to provide people with broadband that can yield speeds above 100Mbps, the marketing and communications director of NetComm, Els Baert, claims.

Labor communications spokesperson Michelle Rowland has laid the blame for the exit of NBN chief executive Bill Morrow squarely on the "economic mess' that the national broadband network has become under Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

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