Telefónica has launched FTTH (Fiber To The Home) services in 12 Spanish cities: Vitoria, Barcelona, Las Palmas, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia, Sevilla, Tenerife, Valencia, Valladolid, Bilbao and Zaragoza. The service allows broadband connections of up to 30 Mbps (download) and 3 Mbps (upload) and it is so far restricted to companies.
Telefónica can start investing in Fiber To The Home (FTTH), as the Spanish regulator, CMT, will not require to share this network with the rest of telecoms operators. This is what the CMT has decided, according to ADSLZone. Nevertheless, if the competition in the market gets hurt, the regulator could change its will.
The city of Cangas de Narcea, in Asturias, is the first one with Fiber To The Home (FTTH) in Spain. The 554 users of the service, provided by Swedish company Adamo, can browse the Internet with a 100 Mbps. connection for 49 euros per month.
Adamo, a company based in Barcelona but with Swedish capital, is the first one to offer an FTTH (Fiber To The Home) Internet connection service in Spain. It will cost 29 euros per month (plus a setup fee of 35 euros), will bring up to 100 Mbps and will be available in some cities in the Northern region of Asturias.
Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has been selected to provide its mobile TV solution to Telefónica España. The service will give end users easy access to Telefónica’s rich mobile TV content and services.
3G is getting ready to compete against wimax. The new LTE (Long Term Evolution, referred to wireless networks) will allow wimax to reach 20 Megas per second, which is much faster than the 3,6 Mega speed that HSDPA (the latest novelty in 3G) would reach in the ideal conditions. But we’ll have to wait until 2010.
It isn’t new that 3G (or UMTS) is not working fine. But some companies either are not aware of this or they just want to lie to us. This is the conclusion that I came to after reading the results of the analysis of a recent estudy by Nokia carried out in a blog about “the brilliant present times of the 3G”.
According to a research by Infonetics Research, just like it has happened with fixed phones, data traffic via mobile phones will soon be bigger that voice traffic. After interviewing 29 operators, the consultant agency has come to the conclusion that the capacity of all the mobile phone aerials will need to be bigger.
Technology evolves too quickly. While mobile phone operators are still trying to install UMTS in every city, a new system, much quicker, suddenly emerges: HSDPA (High Speed Downloading Packet Access). The first network to use this technology will be working in November in the Isle of Man, Great Britain.
Ericsson’s HSDPA solution is now in operation in 15 countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America. This was announced today by Carl-Henric Svanberg, President and CEO of Ericsson, at Stora Aktiedagen, a major retail shareholder event in Stockholm.