Ideas from the open access world.
Perspectives on fiber economics, network operations and the people building open networks — from the team at VX Fiber.
Open Access Choices for the US Market
Retail providers are aggregating networks – acquisition, partnership, use of open access, all of the above. The drivers for this will not be deterred by operational challenges – as anyone on the operations or IT side of the house knows, those will simply have to be overcome and resolved.
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Fiber operators are under pressure to grow utilization and reach without growing operational complexity. VX Suite is built for exactly that.
Fiber rollout doesn't start with the excavator. It starts with data.
The Market is Changing Fiber markets are entering a structural transition. The industry’s primary source of value creation is shifting from expanding footprint, to extracting greater value from the footprint that already exists. It is now competing to monetize and scale networks that already exist. Investors and operators increasingly view revenue growth, utilization, and capital-efficient expansion as the primary source of value creation. Put simply retail providers are expanding subscriber growth by leveraging already built fiber networks via acquisition and partnership.
Following a summer lull, staff are returning to their desks en masse. On September 16th, traffic at 15 key tube stations in the City of London reached a post-covid peak. At the major banks, the desks are starting to fill up. By early September, attendance at Citigroup Inc.’s office hit more than half of its typical pre-pandemic level. The footfall at JPMorgan rose to 40%, up from about a quarter in August, while the occupancy at Goldman Sachs’s office was about half-half, and that proportion is on the rise.
As part of Total Telecom’s Connected Britain, VX Fiber hosted a special pre-event day on 20th September 2021, “Local Authorities: Delivering Digital Transformation.” Its aim was to further understand and support the challenges local governments are facing when it comes to the roll-out of next-generation digital infrastructure.