Here’s a couple new announcements in Europe on FTTH deployments: The first comes from Spain where Movistar launched commercially its FTTH offerings covering 300k households with the aim to span over 1 million homes by the end of the year. The second comes from Ukraine where Kyivstar expanded its FTTH network to 38 cities in [...]
Ribarroja de Ebro (Riba-roja d’Ebre) is a tiny village in the northeastern Spain that have started its own FTTH project to cover a population of 1350 inhabitants (estimated penetration: 50%), with a budget totalling 200k euros. I think the case is very interesting due to the small size of the FTTH network and its implications [...]
On my way to Lisbon and while I waited in Madrid for my transit flight I met with Fransisco Joya, the Strategy Planning Director of Citynet. Fransisco is a cool guy and very much involved in Citynet’s international expansion. He was kind enough to meet with me for a coffee at Plaza de Mayor (the [...]