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What does a new patio deck at your house and fiber to the home have in common? They both increase the value of your home! According to recent research conducted by the University of Colorado and Carnegie Mellon University, fiber to the home can increase an average home's value by over $5K dollars (+3%).

The Brazilian government wants to have fiber optic technology in 90% of the country’s cities. The average Internet speed in the South American country has gone up by 11%, reaching 2.9Mbps.

The undersea cables subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, ASN, has completed the commissioning of the Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS), an almost 3700 miles undersea cable linking US to Ecuador

Huawei will build almost 2.500 miles of fiber optic cable in Republic of Equatorial Guinea, the project will take two years and will bring high-speed Internet access to most of the people in the African country



AT&T completed its acquisition of DirecTV last week, about a year after it was first announced. To be honest, I was never a big fan of this move. Pay TV is not a growing business, and I believe AT&T's dollars would have been better spent expanding its broadband business in the U.S.

CenturyLink agreed to provide its unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) to Iowa Communications Network (ICN), thus increasing its presence in the cloud-based services market.



According to Wire and Cable news, Asian telecoms released new data, revealing that more than 300 million business and homes across Asia-Pacific now have access to fiber services a 35% growth.

TELUS completed 150 km network that reaches 16 cities, in Vancouver island, that will enjoy broadband Internet even for the very first time for some of the communities. The network will improve the healthcare, education and business thanks to the access to new technologies.

Locations has not been revealed, but AT&T will extend its 1Gbps FTTP service to more E-rate schools and libraries as part of one of the FCC’s requirements for the merge that is now completed.