{"id":1648900,"date":"2022-09-20T10:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1648900"},"modified":"2022-09-20T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:08:04","slug":"israel-considers-shutting-copper-networks-in-shift-to-fibre-optics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-considers-shutting-copper-networks-in-shift-to-fibre-optics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel considers shutting copper networks in shift to fibre optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fisrael-considers-shutting-copper-networks-in-shift-to-fibre-optics-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1648900&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Steven Scheer<\/p>\n<p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) \u2013     Israel is considering closing old copper networks and transferring all communications services to newer fibre optics infrastructure, communications minister Yoaz Hendel said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>His ministry is already looking at shutting down copper networks and wants telecom providers and the public to weigh in and give their opinions by Nov. 24, he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The minister pointed to Singapore as having fully switched to full use of fibre optics, while Australia and New Zealand are in advanced stages of the process. <\/p>\n<p>After years of delays and disputes between Bezeq, Israel\u2019s largest telecoms firm, and the communications ministry, in early 2021 Bezeq began to deploy its fibre network nationwide. <\/p>\n<p>Hendel said that the ministry was now looking into transferring all telecoms services to fibre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe old communications infrastructure do not sufficiently  answer the ever increasing demands of the public. And they pollute and have poor performance,\u201d he said in a statement, noting the global trend to moving to fibre networks.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional copper networks consume a lot of energy and have high maintenance costs with low bandwidth, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bezeq said in a regulatory filing in Tel Aviv on Tuesday that it was \u201creviewing the announcement and intends to submit its response to the ministry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Bezeq said it currently reaches more than 1.36 million households with its fibre network and as of the end of June had 180,000 customers for its fibre service. <\/p>\n<p>It aims for 1.5 million homes to have fibre access by the end of the year and for 2.2 million \u2013 82% of the country \u2013 in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Steven Scheer; Editing by Susan Fenton)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/israel-considers-shutting-copper\/file-photo-the-logo-of-bezeq-israeli-telecommunication-corp-ltd\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8J0Q2-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8J0Q2-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) \u2013 Israel is considering closing old copper networks and transferring all communications services to newer fibre optics infrastructure, communications minister Yoaz Hendel said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}