Rostelecom this week announced that it has rolled out fibre infrastructure for Russian gas company SVGC, and separately installed WiFi access points in the town of Vologda.

Openreach this week announced it will roll out full fibre to 2,500 homes in Nottinghamshire, having received BDUK funding to assist with the process.

Deutsche Telekom last work formally began work on the rollout of fibre infrastructure in Hamburg as part of a broader scheme to connect German businesses to fibre.

TIM has named Sardinia's Sant'Antioco as the latest Italian location to gain access to ultra-broadband services following an investment of more than half a million euros.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a smart city initiative that proposes full fibre connectivity to all new homes.

France's telecom network operators installed well over half a million fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections in the first quarter of 2018, but the country's telecoms regulator is keen for them to accelerate deployments further.

Telefonica's domestic unit plans to close one copper network exchange per day over the next three years as part of its migration to fibre-based infrastructure.

Deutsche Telekom has extended vectored VDSL to a further 317,000 premises, giving end users access to up to 100-Mbps broadband.

TIM has begun work on the deployment of a high-speed fibre broadband network in the municipality of Vallerano in central Italy, it announced this week, while separately naming Sicilian municipality San Vito Lo Capo as the latest to gain access to super-fast broadband that will underpin the introduction of smart city services.

1&1 Versatel plans to provide 100Gbps fibre connections to businesses in key commercial areas in the towns of Lehrte and Munster, provided there is sufficient demand to support the initiative.

Openreach has launched a new dark fibre managed service offering that allows other UK operators to build private networks for enterprises.

A Goldman Sachs-owned investment fund has teamed up with Antin Infrastructure Partners to acquire UK fibre broadband provider CityFibre.

The UK’s alternative infrastructure providers (altnets) have passed nearly a million homes with pure fibre broadband, new figures have revealed.

Swiss mobile operator Salt has launched a low-cost fixed-line offering that features world-leading broadband speeds as it looks to undercut established rivals.

Telecom Italia (TIM) is launching an appeal after Italy’s antitrust regulator slapped it with a fine over claims made in its fibre broadband adverts.

The UK Government has announced it will spend £95 million to fund full fibre projects in 13 locations across the country, as a report from CityFibre revealed the potential economic benefits of the technology.

Ofcom has unveiled proposed new caps on the wholesale prices that Openreach can charge to rivals, leading to BT-owned company to warn revenues and profits would dip in the next three financial years.

CityFibre and Vodafone have announced the Scottish city of Aberdeen as the second destination for their FTTH joint venture.

“Incumbents do not have the answer,” was CityFibre CEO Greg Mesch’s characteristically blunt claim during a panel at this week’s FTTH Conference in Valencia.