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Fiber management and connectivity platform vendor Clearfield, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLFD) says that Country Cablevision is using its FieldSmart Fiber Scalability Center (FSC) in a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployment. The FTTH roll out, funded via $25.3 million from the ARRA broadband stimulus program, targets the rural counties of Mitchell and Yancey in western North Carolina.

Claiming that fiber to the home (FTTH) is now accepted by “a wider audience than just the techies,” Dutch communications service provider Tele2 announced that it has begun to market FTTH-enabled broadband services in select markets.

The Iliad Group has secured a loan of EUR 200 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to fund Iliad’s next round of fixed broadband network deployments. The EIB previously had loaned EUR 150 million loan to bankroll previous infrastructure roll outs.

Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX) has agreed to buy the FTTH product line of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) for an undisclosed sum. The two companies also agreed that Ericsson would resell Calix’s newly beefed up access equipment portfolio worldwide.

Canadian carrier Bell Aliant (TSX: BA) has boosted the data rates and number of TV apps its FibreOP fiber to the home (FTTH) customers can expect. It also has made the service available to five new communities.

JT Global, formerly known as Jersey Telecom, is rolling out Netadmin System’s FTTH open access network management software as part of a deployment that aims to reach 42,000 premises on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Following a pilot scheme that has been in place since December 2011, the software tool will now be applied across the entire project to automate the service fulfillment and assurance processes, including a user-friendly platform from which JT and other service providers on and off the island can launch services.

Fiber to the home (FTTH) has taken another step forward in Canada as SaskTel has begun rolling out its infiNET fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network. SaskTel says it will use the infiNET FTTP network to support Internet download speeds of up to 200 Mbps and upload rates of 60 Mbps in its home province of Saskatchewan.

The Government of Scotland has unveiled Community Broadband Scotland, a program backed by £5 million in funding that is designed to help rural community groups attract broadband services to their areas.