Link: Light Reading Europe – Broadband – BT Goes With Huawei for FTTH – Telecom News Analysis.
BT Group plc (NYSE: BT – message board; London: BTA) announced a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployment at a new housing development in Southeast England today, claiming its access network offshoot, Openreach , will be able to provide access speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s to end users, with technology from Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
The new development is at Ebbsfleet Valley in the English county of Kent, where, during the next 25 years, about 10,000 homes will be built. The first homes will be built and hooked up in August.
