Residents of Ashby de la Launde, a small village in Lincolnshire, UK, will soon be able to install super fast 100Mbps fibre optic broadband into their homes. Nearly 60 homes and three businesses have started on-site digging to connect to a fibre network to be installed around the village. This unique project involves the community working together to establish a privately funded network.

Date: 15 July
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 CET  

This webinar takes a closer look at the successful business case of a Fibre-to-the-Home project and covers:
- What to do and what to avoid,
- business parameters and case studies of FTTH projects,
- the main business drivers in FTTH projects,
- the experimental road to profitability,
- …

To join the webinar you just need a PC with an Internet connection.

The content of this webinar is based on the FTTH Business Guide Version 1.1 and the recently online wiki on the FTTH Business Guide.

The FTTH Council Europe hosted a highly successful workshop with European policy makers in Brussels on 24 June to raise awareness of the issues and challenges surrounding the roll-out of fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in Europe. Representatives from the European Commission, the European Parliament and National Regulatory Authorities attended this event and discussed the advantages of fibre access networks and how clear and appropriate regulation can help to speed up the deployment of high-speed broadband. Read the whole story here.

The FTTH Business Guide and the FTTH Handbook of the FTTH Council Europe are now available as online WIKI. This gives you direct access to the different chapters, with an easy search system for specific topics. The WIKI also allows you to edit the texts and to give your input on the FTTH Council Europe documents. Feel free to add new topics and to update the texts! 

A webinar will present the WIKI and its usage on 28 June, 11:00 - 12:00 CET.

Webinar: The Do & Don'ts of Fibre Splicing/Patching/Connecting
27 May 2010, 11:00-12:00 CET
The webinar aims at introducing the basic concepts of performing fibre connections either by fusion splicing, mechanical splicing or connecting, as well as pointing out which are the most common mistakes observed when using this two methodologies. A small comparison in advantages/disadvantages for each technology will also be introduced during the webinar.
To join the webinar you just need a PC with an Internet connection.

The new European Digital Agenda confirms FTTH Council Europe’s position of the need to accelerate the roll-out of fibre-based networks in Europe. Fibre access networks will provide the higher speeds requested by the European Commission and can facilitate even higher speeds.

Fibrecity Holdings, an i3 Group company, has announced that it intends to build the next Fibrecity networks, which will result in more than one million homes and businesses being connected to its fibre optic network over the next four years – delivering standard speeds of 100Mbps and boosts of up to 1Gbps through the largest fibre to the home initiative in the UK.

FTTH Business Guide Workshop in London was a success

Our FTTH Business Guide Workshop in London gathered more than 50 participants. The discussion focused on operator models, services & pricing, deployment, regulations and financing.

Click here to download the FTTH Business Guide free of charge:

FTTH Business Guide Download

The winners of the feedback-forms lottery of the FTTH Conference 2010 in Lisbon are:

Acer Notebook Aspire One: NHH, Mr. Slyuch András

PlayStation 3: Hakon Arne Helleseng

IPod Nano 8 GB: TFO, Mr. Xavier Sunyer

Vodafone, Wind and Fastweb, Italy's three main alternative telecommunications operators, unveiled on Friday 7 May their plan to roll out a single fibre access network across the country. The project aims to connect 15 major Italian cities within five years, with an overall investment of nearly EUR 2.5 billion divided among all the public and private players involved.