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The Fibre-to-the-Home Councils Global Alliance has declared that today is officially the inaugural &#8220;<em>Gimme Fibre Day<\/em>&#8220;, which has been setup as an annual event to help promote the benefits of true ultrafast fibre optic (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a>) connectivity as the &#8220;<em>only future-proof solution<\/em>&#8221; for broadband Internet access.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the date for today\u2019s event corresponds with the birthday of Nobel Prize winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleskaofoundation.org\/en\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sir Charles Kuen Kao<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(aka &#8211; &#8220;<em>Father of Fibre Optics<\/em>&#8220;), whom was jointly awarded the <strong>2009 Nobel Prize in Physics<\/strong> for &#8220;<em>ground-breaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a> Council Global Alliance, which consists of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a> Council Africa, FTTH Council Americas, FTTH Council Asia Pacific, FTTH Council Europe and FTTH Council Middle East &amp; North Africa, plans to hold a variety of events across the world today in order to raise the profile of<strong> fibre optic connectivity<\/strong> and celebrate how it has &#8220;<em>positively impacted communities across the world<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly some people would rather we\u00a0never spend <strong>\u00a315-30bn<\/strong> to roll-out a national\u00a0FTTH network around the United Kingdom but eventually this may be the only long-term solution. Further details should hopefully be available on the schemes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimmefibre.eu\" target=\"_blank\">Gimme Fibre Day<\/a> website and their related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/I-want-fibre\/174248502650699\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, remember. The.. fourth of November? 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