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At the PTC conference today in Hawaii, Telstra announced that it "entered into agreements to invest in two new international subsea cable systems that will connect Hong Kong and the west coast of the United States".

It's been a day of tech talk on how broadband networks around the world are a mix of FttN, VDSL, DOCSIS, Fibre and more, with Korea Telecom's own GiGA Wire tech very successful in Korea.

At the NBN Global Broadband Futures conference in Sydney, Deutsche Telekom's chief technology officer Bruno Jacobfeuerborn stated that DT's vision in 2012 was fibre for all by 2018, but the reality since that time had meant a lot of FttN.

An Optus transmission cable that was cut in Melbourne on Monday was restored last night, the company said today.

By 2025, 1.4 billion 5G connections will see fixed wireless technology becoming a fibre competitor, according to Juniper Research.

New Zealand's largest telecommunications infrastructure provider, Chorus, is offering a free upgrade for 85,000 residential fibre broadband customers on its entry-level 30Mbps plan, increasing it to 50Mbps.

Google's parent company Alphabet has scaled back its Google Fibre project, with about 9% of the staff of the Access unit that includes the Fibre project to lose their jobs.

Nokia says fixed networks will play a key role in achieving network transformation and true convergence with 5G mobile and IoT.

Canberra’s Vodafone network capacity has had some serious capital applied to give it a major boost, catering for growing data demand.

Promising to "liberate customers from single vendor lock-in", ProLabs has a way to get more out of optical infrastructure "at a fraction of the cost of other expansion solutions".

Will fibre ever replace copper cable? While intuitively you might say yes, the answer is that both will be around for quite some time yet.

Using Ericsson/Calix and ADTRAN technology for the trial, major US telco Verizon is assessing the next-gen advanced tech to see how it increases system capacity.

While most Australians wait for DOCSIS 3.1 HFC networks, along with FTTN and then FTTdp installations when NBN Co is ready, Lightning Broadband strikes!

No, it’s not April 1, but Monday 13 June, with Labor promising to deliver FTTP to 2 million extra homes while leaving those on HFC cable and FTTN where they are, for now.

The CCC is commending the ACCC ‘for today publishing its first data on market shares on the NBN, which gave early insights into emerging areas of concern for competition.’

Boasting ‘the highest fibre count cable to date installed in Australia,’ global telco cable system leader Prysmian has claimed another ‘world’s first.’

Leading global IC company Realtek has announced its enhanced Gigabit to the home over copper twisted pair and coax at a tech conference in Indonesia this week.

The Competitive Carriers’ Coalition (CCC) says ‘the latest deal between the NBN and Telstra raises serious questions about how much consumers and competitors are being compromised.’

In a surprise move, Malcolm Turnbull has finally made the move that practically guarantees him an election win in 2016: a full fibre NBN with the MTM abolished.

Allied Telesis has launched new pocket sized desktop media converters purpose-built for fibre-enabling workstations, printers and IP phones.