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Vodafone Spain in talks with Telefonica and Onivia over HFC to fibre migration - report

Thursday 8 July 2021 | 09:12 CET | News
Vodafone Spain has been approached by Telefonica and wholesale provider Onivia with offers to use their respective fibre networks as an alternative to its HFC cable network, reports business daily Expansion. Vodafone currently has over 7.5 million HFC accesses following its 2014 acquisition of cable operator Ono and, like rival Euskaltel, is keen to migrate them to fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) technology.

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Categories: Fixed
Companies: Onivia / Ono / Telefonica / Vodafone Spain
Countries: Spain
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