Cape Town fibre trial hits 400Gbps download speed The Mother City may be in danger of losing its capital status if Parliament decides to shift “oop north” (as we say where I come from), but it’s just put in a claim to the throne of Queen of Broadband connectivity. Tests on the Cape Town metro fiber network just proved that it’s capable…

India’s southern state of Kerala had achieved a unique status of becoming country’s first digital state by linking all villages in the state with high speed broadband networks under the scheme of BharatNet (previous National Optical Fiber Network or NOFN). Indian President Mr. Pranab Mukherjee had formally announced the achievement the state in a function to launch Digital empowerment campaign…

CityFibre response to Ofcom’s Strategic Review of Digital Communications) The report’s conclusions are clear – that to meet the UK’s current and future digital communication needs, and enable widespread availability of competing fiber-to-the-premises networks, a strategic shift to support large-scale investment in end-to-end fiber is required. To accelerate this, Ofcom recommends the promotion of investment and competition, and provisions such…

Verizon to buy fiber–optic network from Icahn’s XO for $1.8B Verizon Communications has agreed to buy the fiber–optic network business and lease spectrum from Carl C. Icahn’s XO Communications for $1.8 bn. Google Fiber to use existing fiber optic cable in San Francisco Google Fiber announced Wednesday it will use existing fiber optic cables in San Francisco to bring its…

India to spend S$818 million to develop first 20 Smart Cities India’s government will provide 40 billion rupees (S$818 million) to upgrade the infrastructure of the first 20 cities selected under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s smart cities program, according to a statement from the Ministry of Urban Development on Saturday (Feb 20). Six cities – Jabalpur, Indore and Bhopal in…

U.S based leading technology firm Finisar Corporation is all set to take advantage of the demand for fiber optic products globally by expanding their manufacturing in Malaysia. Finisar will invest a further RM400 million (Malaysian Ringgit), which comes approximately US$ 95.11 million to expand its Malaysian operations in Perak. The company had invested US$ 160 million in Perak until now….