Megacable announced that during the next few years it will begin an expansion plan through the extension of its FTTH network in Mexico, in order to expand its service offering for both the mass and corporate public. According to the company, the project will guarantee a national presence and will double its audience. To achieve [...]
Movistar Chile announced that it will connect the city of Porvenir to its Austral Fiber Optic (FOA) network, which will make it the southernmost city in the world with high-speed Internet connection. According to the company, technical works in the area will begin in 2022, as well as the launch of the service. On the [...]
DirecTV reached an agreement with the Argentine company Metrotel to develop its FTTH network in the North Zone of the province of Buenos Aires, with the aim of improving the quality of its pay TV and streaming services. Until now, it had only been done in Godoy Cruz, Mendoza, where the fiber was installed in [...]
Barbados became the first island in the Caribbean to fully operate with FTTH, according to FLOW, the regional affiliate of the telecommunications company Cable & Wireless. In this way, the replacement of the copper cable with a GPON connection allowed them to make unlimited broadband transmission with high speed and at a lower cost, they [...]
Grupo ICE, the state-owned company of the Costa Rican telecommunications company Kolbi, expanded its FTTH reach and now reaches more than 233 thousand homes and businesses in 853 locations in the country. As reported by the service, the GPON network was deployed along 29,750 km and has an installed capacity close to 500 thousand connections. [...]
FTTH reached a 39% share in the Latin American broadband market, which exceeded 100 million accesses, and became the option with the highest rate of diffusion in the region in Q2 2021, according to Dataxis. The analysis also foresees that eventually broadband will become a standalone product combined with third-party OTT services. Additionally, the report [...]
Oi focused its main goal on the FTTH market in Brazil, with which it expects to make huge profits, according to its CEO Rodrigo Abreu. Recently, the company expanded its network in six more cities in the country, and from now on the inhabitants of Garibaldi (RS), Medianeira, Palmas, Piraquara (PR), Içara and Ituporanga (SC) [...]
VTR, the Chilean telecommunications company, attempts to resurge after losing more than 100 thousand users in 2020, because of some problems with their Internet program. While they try to expand their FTTH, Mundo Pacífico, pioneer on optical fiber, continues to succeed as the fourth broadband provider in the country and is making the competition increasingly [...]
As part of its Q2 2021 results report presentation, the Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB) reported that its FTTH customer base achieved a 11% growth during the first half of the year, and ended June with 374 thousand subscribers, which represents around 37 thousand new subscribers in relation to December 2020. Likewise, the company [...]
As part of its Q2 2021 financial results report presentation, the telecommunications company Telefonica, whose operations in Chile and the rest of Latin America, except for Brazil, are branded as ‘Movistar’, reported that fiber accesses (FTTH) in Chile grew 62.7% year-on-year. According to the information reported, the company ended June with 974 thousand FTTH accesses. [...]