Suriname: E-Networks to extend fibre optic submarine cable to Suriname

E-Networks has been granted permission by the Guyana Government to connect its fibre optic submarine cable to Suriname to provide for redundancy here.

A notice on the Official Gazette of Guyana website states that Prime Minister Mark Phillips on behalf of the Government has amended the telecommunications licence issued on October 5th 2020, to E-Networks. The licence was amended to grant permission to E-Networks Inc. to land, install and operate a fibre optic submarine cable that will connect Guyana to Suriname for the provision of redundant connectivity here.

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EU Broadband Networks: Europe seeks to spur building of fast broadband networks - by Claire Davenpor

The European Commission has set out rules aimed at reducing the cost of building high-speed broadband networks, in a move that shows how Brussels is seeking more power over the telecoms sector.

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The initiative is important because European leaders are worried that debt-laden telecom operators' slow pace of investment is saddling the region with weak infrastructure that over time could hobble its already recession-wracked economies.

It also comes as the EU cuts funding for broadband roll-outs. EU budget cuts, which must be approved by Parliament, hammered out in February cut such funding for rural projects to just 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) from 9.2 billion.

The draft regulations issued on Tuesday, which Reuters reported in early February, requires new and renovated housing to be broadband ready, calls for ducts and other infrastructure to be shared among telcos on fair and reasonable terms and shortens the permitting process.

It also calls for water, electricity and gas companies to share their underground ducts with telecoms firms to cut the cost of creating high-speed broadband networks.

The Commission said digging up streets to lay fiber accounts for up to 80 percent of the cost of deploying new networks, adding that the new rules would save up to 60 billion euro.


The construction in Europe of fiber networks lags far behind Asia and some parts of the United States, worrying policymakers who see the infrastructure as a key motor for economic growth. Europe had 5.95 million fiber broadband customers by mid-2012, a fraction of the more than 58 million subscribers in Asia.

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ABN Newswire: Reggefiber Builds Largest Fiber-to-the-Home Network In The Netherlands With Cisco Technology

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Reggefiber Builds Largest Fiber-to-the-Home Network In The Netherlands With Cisco Technology

Cisco® announced today that Reggefiber, a major fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband operator in the Netherlands, is rolling out an optical fiber network to three cities in the Netherlands based on the Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture and using Cisco Ethernet FTTH (E-FTTH) technology. Reggefiber owns an extensive FTTH network in The Netherlands and current planned projects will add approximately 100,000 to 200,000 households making Reggefiber's FTTH coverage the largest in The Netherlands. Reggefiber is active in a number of cities in The Netherlands and has recently started laying fiber in the city of Deventer. It will extend the FTTH network to the city of Almere and another city within the next few months. The network will give residents access to broadband speeds of up to 100 megabits per second* (Mbps) initially, and up to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) in the future, making it possible to deliver advanced services, such as standard and high-definition IPTV, video on demand, voice over IP services and high-speed Internet services, delivered over a single broadband connection.