Three UK is looking to bolster its 5G preparations by signing a deal with SSE Enterprise Telecoms to give it better access to fibre networks.

Deutsche Telekom is spending €1.1 billion to roll out fibre across the 179 cities and municipalities of the Stuttgart region as well as strengthening its LTE network.

Fifteen Orange Romania customers have had a sneak peek of fixed-wireless access, after being chosen for a trial of the technology from the operator, Cisco and Samsung.

Vodafone Spain has held a live demonstration of the Facebook-designed Voyager optical technology that it said can improve the quality and consistency of fibre networks.

French regulator Arcep has warned Orange and SFR that they need to sharpen up their FTTH rollout plans if they are to meet new commitments to bring the technology to less densely populated parts of the country.

German altnet Deutsche Glasfaser has broken ground on the construction of its FTTP network in Rödermark, Hesse.

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.