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FTTH Newsroom
Welcome to the FTTH Council’s online newsroom. Here you will find links to our latest and archived news releases, as well as to news announcements from our members and to FTTH industry news items.
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Media Contact:
David St. John
1.315.849.3800
media@ftthcouncil.org
Press Releases
Press Releases - Fiber Momentum Continues to Build: FTTH Council Applauds Announcement of Third Google Fiber City
Apr 17, 2013 05:56 PM
(WASHINGTON) Earlier today, Google announced Provo, Utah will become the third Google Fiber City, providing gigabit connectivity to one of the nation’s innovation hubs. This announcement comes just weeks after the selection of the second deployment, Austin, Texas, was revealed. The Fiber to the Home...
- How-To Conference on Building Superfast Networks to Feature Google's Medin, Case Western’s Gonick
Apr 04, 2013 01:41 PM
Conference to Assist Civic and Community Leaders Pursue Gigabit Connectivity(WASHINGTON) – Google Fiber head Milo Medin and Case Western Reserve University Chief Information Officer Lev Gonick will join other pioneers of ultra high speed connectivity in keynoting a May conference aimed at helping co...
- Telcos Saving Serious Money by Upgrading to FTTH, Survey Finds
Apr 02, 2013 01:11 PM
Report also points to 20 percent yearly increase in homes connected to all-fiber networks(WASHINGTON) – Small and medium-sized telephone companies that have upgraded their networks to all-fiber are reporting operational cost savings averaging 20 percent annually, according to a study commissioned by...
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Member News - Construction starting on Co-Mo Connect Phase 1 project
May 16, 2013 08:20 AM
Co-Mo Electric Cooperative next week officially begins construction of Phase 1 of a project that eventually will make fiber-to-the-home Internet, television and telephone available to all its members. The cooperative is building the Co-Mo Connect network in response to member demand and a glaring l...
- Computer Techniques, Inc. to build state of the art Fiber to the Home network in Taylorville, IL
May 15, 2013 07:24 AM
Local businessmen Adam Vocks and Billy Williams with Computer Techniques, Inc. will soon place Taylorville, IL among the short list of high tech communities in the nation by building a state of the art fiber to the home network capable of speeds up to 2.5 Gigabits/second (2,500 Mbps.) This network w...
- Tullahoma, TN to Become a Gigabit City
Apr 30, 2013 05:27 AM
Customers who use LightTUBe as their online service provider will soon have access to one of the fastest Internet speeds in the nation. During Tuesday night’s meeting of the Tullahoma Utilities Board (TUB), Brian Skelton, the utility’s general manager, announced that in just a matter of days, Tulla...
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Industry News - How to Get Google Fiber—Without Google
May 17, 2013 07:42 AM
Blair Levin was sitting in a Costa Rica hotel bar in 2011 when an idea struck him. Google was moving ahead with its plan to roll out free, high-speed Internet access in Kansas City, Kan.—the result of a competition that drew in more than 1,000 applications from cities nationwide. The demand for Web ...
- Eye on ‘Gig City:’ How Startups Thrive in Chattanooga
May 14, 2013 08:27 AM
Chattanooga has been a tech hub in the making since EPB, a community-owned provider of electric power to the area, introduced a fiber-optic network in 2010. Chattanooga, now dubbed “Gig City,” suddenly laid claim to the fastest internet connection in the country –at a download speed of one gigabit a...
- NY Times: Yanking Broadband From the Slow Lane
May 08, 2013 10:12 AM
Most of the nation’s innovation today relies on a broadband connection. Yet broadband seems to be the one area of the information economy that has not followed Moore’s law, named after the proposition by Intel’s co-founder Gordon Moore that the power of digital devices would roughly double every cou...
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