Revenue growth from telecoms services slowed in the UK last year, as declining wholesale sales offset rising demand for faster broadband.

UK fibre company Hyperoptic has won a further £100 million (€111 million) in funding as it looks to accelerate and broaden its network roll-out.

BT has proposed to provide universal broadband across the UK by 2020 in an attempt to stave off further regulation.

Niek Jan van Damme has quit as Managing Director of Telekom Deutschland and will leave at the end of the year.

Clive Selley has said 10 million UK premises could access pure fibre technology by the mid-2020s if “the right conditions” prevail.

Deutsche Telekom has signed a deal with German utility and telecoms company EWE that will see the two broadband providers sharing their VDSL networks in northwest Germany.

Ofcom has set up a dedicated team to monitor the legal separation of BT and Openreach, as the UK’s largest provider of broadband infrastructure looks to begin life as a more independent company.

The BT name is beginning to disappear from the Openreach logo as the company continues its move towards being a legally separate entity from its parent.

CityFibre hopes to net around £200 million from a new funding round as it looks to deploy FTTH to premises in up to 10 UK cities.

Lyndsey Burton, Founder of price comparison site Choose.co.uk

The CEO of the UK’s rural-focused fibre broadband provider discusses rollout targets, regulation and Brexit

The Polish government is set to award Nokia and Infracapital with a contract to build and operate a fibre broadband network.

The Broadband Forum has announced that six G.Fast products have completed its certification program, as the broadband technology gets set for commercial rollout.

BT Chief Executive Gavin Patterson lamented the increase in uncertainty that Brexit and the UK General Election result was causing around R&D collaboration with Europe, as the company’s research team announced it had hit a new FTTP speed record.

MásMóvil has signed a wide-ranging deal with Ericsson that sees the vendor provide the Spanish operator with a wide range of services including enterprise billing and FTTH.

By Todd Mersch, Co-Founder & Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing at XCellAir

The CEO of Altice has said fibre is the future as the operator acquired exclusive broadcasting rights to UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League football.

Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries said fewer UK premises than expected will be connected to faster broadband technology this year, as he revealed the company’s European operating income suffered in Q1.

Virgin Media, Tesco Mobile and BT top customer satisfaction rankings across broadband, mobile and landline respectively, according to new Ofcom figures.

Fibre broadband deployments in the UK could be boosted if lawmakers continue to commit to attracting low-skilled workers, the government has been told.