Fiber-Optic

Monaco’s 2025 Internet Revolution: 10 Gbps Fiber, 5G Everywhere – and Even SpaceX Starlink

Monaco reached 100% fiber-optic broadband coverage in 2023, with copper DSL retired at the end of 2023 under the Extended Monaco program. Monaco Telecom is the sole major fixed broadband provider, with the state owning 45% and NJJ Holding owning the remainder. Residential fiber speeds include 100 Mbps for €39.99/month, 1 Gbps for about €59.99/month, and 10 Gbps for around €99.99/month, with installation free and bundles that include TV and landline. Business fiber offerings reach up to 10 Gbps with symmetric uploads up to 2 Gbps, plus static IPs, cloud storage, and service level agreements for reliability. Monaco’s 2 km²

16 August 2025

Fiber-Optic Odyssey: How Greece’s Internet Is Evolving from DSL to Starlink

By mid-2023 FTTP availability was 38.4% of Greek households, with 0% rural fiber and over 60% of homes lacking fiber. By mid-2023 5G coverage reached 98.1% of the population, with about 59% of households having access to ultra-fast 5G mid-band (3.5 GHz) and just 6% of rural households covered by mid-band 5G. Starlink arrived in Greece in early 2022 and was fully available nationwide by March 2023, delivering typical speeds of 150–300 Mbps down and 20–40 Mbps up with latency about 30–50 ms. Starlink pricing fell from about €99/month to €60, then €40/month in late 2023, while hardware costs run

25 June 2025

Broadband · Fiber Optics · Greece · Internet · Starlink

Jam-Proof & Unstoppable: How Fiber-Optic Drones Are Rewiring the Future of UAVs

Fiber-optic drones carry control commands and high-bandwidth video via a tether, delivering a 1 Gbps (1000Base-T) link with near-zero latency and immunity to RF jamming. Fiber communications were pioneered by Charles Kao in 1966 and proven practical by 1977, enabling high-bandwidth data transfer for drones. Russia deployed fiber-tethered kamikaze FPV drones in spring 2024 during the Ukraine conflict, achieving demonstrated ranges of 20–30 km. By late 2024, Ukraine’s 3DTech with the Khyzhak REBOFF series and Russia’s Ushkuynik group’s Knyaz Vandal were among the first operational fiber-drone models. In the 2010s, tethered systems from Elistair and Hoverfly used Kevlar-based tethers for

17 June 2025

Drones · Fiber Optics · Future Tech · Security · UAV Technology

Fiber-Optic Drones in Ukraine: Evolution, Applications, and Impact

The Knyaz Vandal Novgorodsky fiber-optic FPV drone, built by the Russian volunteer group Ushkuinik led by Aleksey Chadaev, was deployed in August 2024 in Russia’s Kursk region to counter Ukrainian incursions. By late 2024 and early 2025, elite Russian fiber-optic FPV units named Rubicon and Sudny Den operated in eastern Ukraine, carrying spools up to about 10.8 km and achieving ranges of 20–30 km with roughly 80% success at 20 km. In December 2024 Ukraine demonstrated FPV drones controlled via fiber-optic cables to high-ranking officers, presenting more than a dozen domestic models with payloads up to 3 kg. By early

13 June 2025

Drones · Fiber-Optics · Military · Technology · Ukraine