Axia's Covage to build FTTH network in Seine-et-Marne

CALGARY - Axia NetMedia Corporation has announced that its French company, Covage, has been awarded an agreement to partner with local governments to deploy a Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) network in Seine-et-Marne, France.The department of Seine-et-Marne has a population of 1.3 million and is located east of Paris, in the region of Île-de-France. The network will pass 319,000 homes when complete. Covage owns and operates the Sem@for77 regional network, which is also located in Seine-et-Marne.The new network will be funded by a combination of private capital, operating cash flow and government grants, and network construction is expected to begin later this year."Covage...