Fiber to the premises by country
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This article lists the deployment of fiber to the premises by country.
’s Kileleshwa, Kilimani and Lavington suburbs. Also available as Triple-Play bundles.
, many Chinese telecom
experts discussed FTTH (fiber to the home) in China for the first time in the last a few years. The topics include FTTH opportunities and challenges, FTTH applications, FTTH network architecture, cost analysis, etc. That forum attracted a lot of attention of China's telecom community and became a starting point for this new FTTH wave.
via fiber to the building and fiber to the home. Speeds ranged from 10 Mbit/s (19 USD/month) to up to 1000 Mbit/s (1 Gbit/s) (215 USD/month), although the speed to non-Hong Kong destinations was capped at 20 Mbit/s. And in October 2007, the largest telecom giant in Hong Kong -- PCCW
started to offer both 100 Mbit/s and 1000 Mbit/s FTTH Internet plans for consumers. As November 2007, their cost is around USD75 and USD280 respectively without any speed cap on overseas traffic.
Triple-play FTTH services are due to be launched in 2011 by Hayai Broadband. Services will be offered via an entirely Passive Optical Network
, allowing speeds of 100+ Mbit/s to the Internet and 1000+ Mbit/s (1 Gbit/s) within its own network. The coverage area will include most suburbs in Mumbai
and the company has announced intentions to spread to other cities and even rural areas. It has coverage ready in the Northern Suburbs of Mumbai based on a UTStarcom platform, however the company expects to replace this with a platform by either Alcatel Lucent or Motorola
.
BSNL has launched an FTTH service in Jaipur in late 2010 http://www.bsnl.co.in/service/bb_ftth.htm
First Media
, a company born from Lippo
group's new $650 million investment in Internet in Indonesia
, as well as cable television, began offering FTTH (using coaxial cable
not Optical Fiber
), branded as FastNet, on 8 September.
, was first introduced in 1999, and did not become a large player until 2001. In 2003-2004, FTTH grew at a remarkable rate, while DSL
's growth slowed. 10.5 million FTTH connections are reported as of September 2007 in Japan. Currently, many people are switching from DSL to FTTH, the use of DSL is decreasing, with the peak of DSL usage being March 2006. On September 17, 2008, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
reported that for the first time, the number of FTTH connections (13.08 million connections) eclipsed that of DSL (12.29 million connections) and became the biggest means of broadband connection in Japan at 45% of total compared to that of DSL at 42%. In the report, the number of FTTH connections grew by 929,681 during the period of March to June 2008 while the number of DSL connections declined by 420,706 during the same period.
Average real-world speed of FTTH is 66 Mbit/s in the whole of Japan, and 78 Mbit/s in Tokyo.
FTTH first started with 10 Mbit/s (end-user rate) passive optical network
(PON) by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
(NTT), and 100 Mbit/s (end-user rate) with GEPON (Gigabit Ethernet
-PON) or broadband PON as the major one in 2006. PON is the major system for FTTH by NTT, but some competitive services present 1 Gbit/s (at end-user rate) with SS (Single Star).
Currently, most people use 100 Mbit/s.
Major application services on fibers are voice over IP
, video-IP telephony, IPTV
(IP television), IPv6
services and so on.
officially launched FTTH on 24 March 2010, TM High Speed Broadband (HSBB) to end users in stages. The product name is UniFi
offering speeds from 5 MBPS, 10 MBPS and 20 MBPS for Residential and Corporate Customers.
As of Jun 2011, TM has completed approx. 900K Homepasses (or premises) and has about more than 100,000 customers.
Pilot areas for PLDT's new service will include Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, Forbes Park, Urdaneta Village, and Dasmarinas Village in Makati City, Ayala Heights in Quezon City, Wack Wack in San Juan, Valle Verde in Mandaluyong, and certain areas covered by PLDT in Subic and Clark free ports.
Co offers FTTB for around $30USD. Taiwan ranks 4th highest FTTB penetration rate in the world.
TOT Public Company also start to offer FTTH service but the information about its package is not release yet.
Diverse double-play and triple-play packages featuring: * High-speed Internet access (up to 40 Mbit/s symmetrical bandwidth) with wireless options featuring high-grade protection and automated equipment configuration * Up to two phone lines and up to 10 reserved DIDs for easy SOHO service upgrade * Value-added voice services like fax-to-email * Digital TV featuring over 80 popular channels incl. HD, customized middleware and high-quality STBs by Motorola. Multiple STBs per subscriber available * Video-on-demand (music and film libraries available) * Online services management
was Vodatel. As of September 2006, Vodatel service was available only in the capital Zagreb
, although plans to cover other major towns also existed at that point. The service offered symmetrical 2/5/10 Mbit/s speeds in triple play packages.
As of mid 2009 T-com.hr equipped a 28floor building in Rijeka at least partly with Fiber to the Homes/Flats offering triple play. The building was announced to be a test site and the service was initially offered free of charge.
), signed a contract with Ericsson for a rollout of FTTH.
, a FTTH (1/10/100 Mbit/s) service called ViaGia provided by T-Systems
is available in newer homes built by CentralGroup. UPC, a cable TV and Internet company provides Triple Play Services over FTTH in new buildings. Although there is no information about it on their website.
In Brno
, there is a FTTH service called NETBOX at www.netbox.cz provided by SMART Comp. a.s. There are some smaller FTTH networks in Brno
, Frýdek-Místek, Šumperk and Most.
in the northern parts of Zealand north and west of Copenhagen
. DONG Energy
does however not provide access to internet, television or telephone by themselves - other providers may rent themselves onto the cable to provide the end customer with anything ranging from simple POTS
-like telephony to triple play
. The installation was being performed by the power company DONG Energy
as part of a project to convert their airborne power infrastructure into one consisting of underground cables. Their plans called for a completion date of 2010, after which they expected to expand FTTH installation to areas that fell outside of the scope of the power infrastructure conversion project.
released their first commercial FTTH offer in Paris at 45€ a month for a 100 Mbit/s Internet connection (flat rate) and a set of services including telephone over IP and television. The fiber installation is free. In June 2006, France Telecom
/Orange SA
launched a test program for FTTH in some arrondissement
s of Paris
. It proposes up to 2.5 Gbit/s downstream and 1.2 Gbit/s upstream per 30 users using PON for 70€ a month.
In September 2006, Free announced a €30 a month triple play
offer including 100 Mbit/s Internet connection, free phone calls to 42 countries and high-definition television
. The roll-out of this service was planned for May 2007, but wide offering has been postponed to September after a detailed presentation during summer. It will be available first in Paris, then other French towns including Montpellier, Lyon and Valenciennes as well as certain Paris suburbs.
A residential fibre service had been deployed in the 15th Arrondissement
(borough
) of Paris
by Cité Fibre. Bandwidth allocated to each user was 100 Mbit/s with 30 Mbit/s reserved for Internet traffic. The package included Digital Television and VoIP Telephone services along with the above-mentioned unlimited Internet starting at 49€ per month. The 15th arrondissement was probably selected for its comparatively high residential population.
Cité Fibre was bought by Free in October 2006 and merged into Free's own FTTH project.
In 2003 Erenis launched an offer of FTTB which evaluate to 100 Mbit/s in January 2007 including the triple play
. Erenis was bought by Neuf
on April 2, 2007, and this company is planning to offer a 50 Mbit/s triple play service for €29.90 starting at once (A user reports in fact a debit of 35/10 Mbit/s). In July 2007 Neuf announced it will only use FTTH in new deployments, and that the existing Erenis FTTB users would be switched to FTTH at some time in the future. Neuf also acquired Mediafibre, a company which sold fibre optic access is Pau, France, in January 2007.
, Thessaloniki
and 50 other cities across Greece
by 2013, at a cost of €2.1 billion and at speeds of "at least" 100 Mbit/s.
, as of 2009 Magyar Telekom
is the largest FTTH provider in the country. Fiber-optic services are currently available in the inner districts of Budapest
, and other major cities like Győr
and Sopron
. By 2011 the fiber-optic network will be extended to 800.000 households.
, FTTH is being deployed by Gagnaveita Reykjavikur, a subsidiary of Orkuveita Reykjavíkur
(Reykjavik Power Company). By March 2006, they had begun connecting the towns of Seltjarnarnes
, Akranes
and parts of the Greater Reykjavík Area
. At that time they expected to have 50% of Reykjavik connected by 2008 and all of the Greater Reykjavík Area, Seltjarnes, Akranes, Mosfellsbær
, Þorlákshöfn
and Hveragerði
connected by 2012. However, deployment in other areas was pending due to agreements with city officials. GR only owned the FTTH network; ISP services were provided by HIVE
, Skýrr, and Vortex. As of July 2006, VoIP service were available from HIVE. By March 2007, Vodafone Iceland
was providing ISP and VoIP services, and had introduced video via its Digital Iceland broadcasting system. However, Skýrr had stopped providing ISP services at this point. The FTTH connections are 100 Mbit/s, but as of March 2007 the ISP services only offered speeds of 6 Mbit/s, 8 Mbit/s, 10 Mbit/s, 20 Mbit/s and 30 Mbit/s.
In March 2006, the monthly cost of having the FTTH in house was 1.990 ISK (approx 26 US dollars), not including any services. This was somewhat more expensive than having a phone line in the house which cost 1.340 ISK (approx 18 US dollars) at that time. By June 2009, the monthly cost of having the FTTH in house had risen to 2.390 ISK (approx 19 US dollars at the time), not including any services. By comparison, having a phone line in the house had dropped to 1.147 ISK (approx $9 US dollars) by that time.
Other smaller FTTH providers are Míla
which operates in recently developed areas in Greater Reykjavík Area, Gagnveita Skagafjarðar operates in Sauðárkrókur
and Tengir in Akureyri
and its vicinity.
, FTTH has been deployed by FASTWEB
since 1999 in selected areas of Milan
, Rome
, Naples
, Genova
, Bologna
and other few cities, however they aren't planning to deploy any more FTTP as DSL deployment is far cheaper. Where FTTP is available, they offer a triple play
service on a 10/10 Mbit/s Internet connection.
Telecom Italia announced, in March 2008, they would deploy FTTH in 140,000 homes in Milan, by the end of 2008 and in 10 cities the following year (speed up to 1 Gbit/s).
, FTTN (N=Neighborhood) has been deployed by Telecom Kosovo since 2000 in selected areas of Prishtine, Peja, Prizren
, Mitrovice, Ferizaj, Gjilan and other cities in Kosovo. More than 800 km connects 50 locations in MASH topology, in 2010 Telecom Kosovo introduced Triple-Play for its costumers.
and some smaller local providers. Teo LT are a former state telecom operator now owned by TeliaSonera
, and according to local regulatory agency their data communications business accounts for ~69% of the total data service revenue in Lithuania for 2009. They sell FTTH under the brand ZEBRA, there were 63.000 subscribers connected via FTTH at the end of 2009, and there are plans that most of residents in 3 biggest cities - Vilnius
(95%), Kaunas
(70%) and Klaipėda
(95%) - will have a possibility to connect to FTTH by the end of 2010. According to the FTTH European Rankings of the FTTH Council Europe published February 24, 2010, Lithuania leads Europe in FTTH connectivity with 18% penetration, followed by Sweden, Norway and Slovenia.
, as of 2010 Makedonski Telekom
is the largest FTTH provider in the country. Fiber-optic services are currently available in the inner districts of Skopje
, and it's expected to expand to the larger cities in the country. The service offers symmetrical 20/40/60 Mbit/s speeds in triple play and double play packages.
FTTB has been deployed by StarNet
and Arax since 2006 and Moldtelecom
since 2008 in the city of Kishinev at first and other towns and regional centers later. Since then the fiber network grew very fast due to intense competition between two dominant ISP's in the country - StarNet and Moldtelecom. The result of this competition is that currently FTTB holds more than 35% of the broadband market in the country and is continuing to increase, slowly pushing back ADSL as the main internet access technology. As of 2010 there are multiple local and only two country-wide ISP's (StarNet and Moldtelecom) that offer internet access via FTTB. StarNet and Moldtelecom both offer 100/100Mbit (symmetrical) internet connection via FTTB in the city of Kishinev and some regional centers with prices around 15€ per month.
, there is a large network with 15 000 connections. Triple play
is offered. Houses and companies are connected with single-mode fibre. The network is owned by the members themselves, who formed a corporation. The first European FTTH project was also in Eindhoven in a neighborhood known as the "Vlinderflats". This was a multi-mode fibre but was in 2005 changed to single-mode fibre. FTTH resulted in new broadband services; the inhabitants started their own broadband TV station called VlinderTV.
Since October 2006 the fibre optics connections are being deployed in the city of Amsterdam
. In the first phase of the deployment there are some 40 000 connections planned with the first ones being available for connection to end users by the February 2007. The network is rolled out in the boroughs of Zeeburg, Oost and Osdorp. The owner of the network is GNA CV, the operator is BBned, a subsidiary of Telecom Italia. BBned operates as a non-discriminating wholesaler of capacity to serviceproviders. This setup with a structural separation of ownership of the network and the delivery of services ensures that the network is open to all.
Also, another company is building new FTTH networks in Arnhem
, Nijmegen, Amersfoort
, Hilversum
, Soest, Leiden and Utrecht
. These networks are almost completed. The first home was connected around March 2005. If all goes according to plan, the last home in these networks will be connected in June 2007. These networks also provide triple play services. Internet connection speed varies from 24, 48 and 100 Mbit/s (up and down).
The city of Deventer
will be the first city in The Netherlands which will be fully connected with FTTH, at the end of 2009. Already in the first quarter of 2009, more than half of the roughly 100.000 citizens are able to use the FTTH services. Single Pay, Double Pay and Triple Pay are offered, with speeds of 35 and 50 Mbit/s. In the near future, these speeds will be upgraded to 50 and 100 Mbit/s respectively.
, ZON
was created from the old TVCabo spin-off of its mother company PT. Subsequently a large group of smaller cable operators was bought into the new company.
TVTEL
was the first Portuguese ISP to offer FTTH services initially in Oeiras (near Lisbon
) and also in Porto
,
Pluricanal was another ISP that offers this kind of access in some neighborhoods on the outskirts of Lisbon. Both TVTel and Pluricanal are now a part of ZON.
ZON based its current expansion program not on the FTTH network but in upgrading the HFC (cable) network to Eurodocsys3.0 (service is at 200 Mbit/s on cable and 1 Gbit/s in FTTH).
Sonaecom with Optimus Clix Fibra was the "arguably" first investing in large-scale fiber optical network, to cover 1,000,000 people by 2011, the triple-play packages include maximum speed of 360 Mbit/s/36 Mbit/s (down/upstream), TV offer with +150 channels is over FTTH and IPTV
, in which the company was first to offer such service in Portugal.
Portugal Telecom
launched the FTTH service in May 2009, the Meo Fibra, that offers a triple-play service at maximum speed (for now) of 200/20 Mbit/s (download/upload), more than 100 TV channels over IPTV and VoIP phone; the coverage is still limited to major cities, but the expansion of the fiber is underway across the country.
A special notice should be mentioned about the late development of PT FTTH network since due to previous "unbundling" problems of the copper DSL network only after getting a guarantee from the respective authorities (Anacom) that they would not be mandated to give free/open access to other companies in their network.
, FTTH was first deployed in Timişoara
by RDS. Currently, it is available in every major city. The name of the service is FiberLink.
company started construction of the "Universal City Telecommunication Network" (UCTN) in Perm
. General principle applied to the construction was FTTH («Optics up to Home»).
On the base of UCTN company offers the following services:
, FTTH was first deployed in Bratislava
, Piešťany
and Trnava
by Orange
. End user speed is 70/8 Mbit/s (down/up).The name of the service is Orange Doma
Another FTTx connectivity is available in Michalovce
by GeCom, s.r.o, which offers FTTB+ETTH variant at speeds up to 33/33 Mbit/s (down/up).
FTTx connectivity is available in Košice
by Antik computers & communications.
, FTTH was first deployed in Kranj
by T-2
company. Currently optical fiber infrastructure for FTTH is being built by Gratel and Telekom Slovenije in Šenčur, Ljubljana
, Koper, Novo Mesto
, Murska Sobota
, Maribor
, Slovenska Bistrica
, Velenje
, Nova Gorica
and Jesenice. The plan by both companies is to cover all the major and smaller towns first before they roll out fiber to suburbs. T-2 FTTH speed ranges from 10/10Mbit/s (€22/month),, 20/20Mbit/s (€28/month), 50/50Mbit/s (€39/month), 100/10Mbit/s (€27/month), 100/100Mbit/s (€49/month) up to 1 Gbit/s (€1,000/month). Telekom Slovenije offers FTTH speeds from 20 Mbit/s (€26/month) upward.
In mid 2011, T-2
has finished negotiations with Gratel to greatly expand FTTH penetration in its home city Maribor
, where the T-2
's main offices are located. The expanditure is rumored to connect more than 25,000 new households including skyscrapers in the city's south center area Tabor
(the right/south side of the river). The construction has started immediately and is continuing rapidly.
equipment and is PON based with 2.5G downstream and 1.25G upstream capacity per 32 homes. The network has an Open Access FTTH Network architecture allowing end users to select from several different service providers. website
Municipalities and private companies are using blown fiber and cable in metro networks. For metro networks, fibre cable are used with fibre counts ranging from eight to 96 SM, and blown fibre with bundles of 8 fibers or less, for connecting houses and apartments.
Competitors to Telia, the Swedish incumbent, helped to drive the early development of fiberbased broadband installations made by Bredbandsbolaget
and others. For instance by municipality owned power companies and housing corporations.
Stokab, Stockholm’s city-owned network company, is the owner of one of the largest dark fiber
city networks in Europe.
Ribbon cables, new micro cables and blown fiber used by Stokab, are facilitating the installation. New smart network designs, cuts construction costs and eliminates the need to dig up streets and sidewalks to connect building properties one by one. Stokab installs a fibre optic cable from its metro network into the basement of a building where it terminates all the fibres from the street. From the termination box Stokab then installs a multiduct with micro ducts that goes through all the basements on the block to form a ring. Each building has a ‘delivery point’ from which Stokab can connect a micro duct when the building owner wants fibre.
Stokab has connected so far 10 city blocks in central Stockholm during 2006, which each have about 250 apartments. Stokab plans to connect 100 more blocks in 2007 -2008. Some of the biggest scale projects are now built in Stockholm, where housing corporations use micro duct to blow cable and fiber to connect tenants. In Stockholm, housing corporations (Svenska Bostäder, Stockholmshem, Familjebostäder) will connect more than 100,000 apartments over the next coming years forming the worlds largest Open Fiber To The Home network. Tenants can chose among competing service providers of Internet, telephony and TV.
The dominating active FTTH technology used in Sweden is AON, some few PON based project are also up and running.
A standard for national certification of fiberinstallers has been formed in order to keep high installation quality and lower maintenance costs.
As of March 2009, Sweden has 8% of households connected with fiber, making Sweden number one in Europe FTTH-wise.
In Autumn 2010, Sweden is due to launch 1 Gbit/s in some areas for 999SEK per month.
Superonline (an ADSL operator) acquired Tellcom on 01.05.2009 and continued the fiber internet service on highly populated buildings, along with its ADSL service. Current name of the fiber internet service is "Superonline Fiber Internet".
Currently offered tariffs are 10/1 Mbit/s (99 TL/month ~= 65 $/month), 20/5 Mbit/s (199TL ~= 135 $/month), 50/5 Mbit/s (399TL ~= 265 $/month, and 100/5 Mbit/s (599TL ~=400 $/month).
Tariffs include low priced fiber packages with download quotas, and after quota limits are reached, extra downloads cost fees depending on the amount of the download. (9.4 TL / GB =~ 6.3$ / GB)
Finally there are packages with "fair use policy" which limit the fiber speed to 512/128 kbit/s once download caps are reached. The download caps are set at 5 times the download speed and 10 times the upload speed in terms of GB (As an example, 10/1 Mbit/s "fair use" tariff has 50 GB/10 GB fair usage quotas).
Superonline's "fair use policy" tariffs, price increases for the unlimited tariffs (73 $/month to 400 $/month for the 100 Mbit unlimited tariff), and the reduced upload speeds (From symmetrical upload speed to 5 Mbit upload speed) have created a controversy among its users, and a protest group was formed condemning Superonline for its actions.
Superonline announced on its April 2010 monthly bill that after June 15, 2010, all upload speeds will be decreased to 1 Mbit/s for the fiber internet tariffs. This includes the 20/5 Mbit/s, 50/5 Mbit/s and 100/5 Mbit/s tariffs, thus after June 15, 2010, these tariffs will be 20/1 Mbit/s, 50/1 Mbit/s and 100/1 Mbit/s. (100/1 service with a download to upload ratio of 100:1 is the most asymmetrical fiber connection in the world.) However on 15 May 2010, Superonline later sent an e-mail to its customers stating that this announcement on the bills was a "technical glitch" which should be ignored. This incident decreased Superonline's credibility among its fiber internet customers.
Superonline announced on July 9, 2010 that customers would be discriminated according to their internet service starting dates. Customers who started using fiber internet before March 15 2010 will not be affected by the "fair usage policy", thus they will be able to download unlimited data while paying half the price of unlimited tariffs or in other words paying the same price as a fair usage limited user and downloading unlimited data.
in 2006 by Comstar-Ukraine, LLC. Local branch of Comstar-UTS, Russia. Project aimed to prepare a basic network for TriplePlay services deployment. Along with the broadband internet service on April 2008 Comstar-Ukraine presented to the market first in Ukraine commercial IPTV project, which presently supports HDTV and Dolby 5.1 sound.
Later 2007 FTTP project in Kiev
was deployed by Svitonline/Golden Telecom
. Svitonline proposes such tariffs: "Hourly": 20₴ (€2,70)/month, 25 hours included, ₴1 (€0,01)./hour above included. "Standart": 80₴ (€10,81)/month, 11 GiBs included, ₴0,01 (€0,001)/MiB above included. "Unlimited": 200₴ (€27)/month.
Speed for all of the tariffs is 100 Mbit/s.
H2O Networks
, part of the i3 Group, is rolling out Fibrecity
, offering Residential FTTH in Bournemouth, Northampton and Dundee.
by FTTH.
On 11 April 2007 Jordan Cable TV & Internet Services obtained from the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission the individual license to build communications networks.
. A typical installation has four RJ32 female sockets and two RJ45 female sockets.
On May 2, 2007 Internet is offered for premises with Fibre.
unveiled a study to provide FTTH to 40,000 subscribers residing on Hamra Street
and to 35,000 others residing in Achrafieh
, both located in Beirut. If approved by the cabinet, the system will take 10 months to be completed. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=101418
, announced in March 2010 a plan to roll out an FTTP network across the country. Construction began in August 2010 with completion expected in late-2013. The network will be connected to all homes and businesses in the country and offer speeds of 100Mbit/s.
, Emirates Lakes, Hills, Springs and the Arabian Ranches.
The network was operated by a subsidiary of Emaar Properties called SAHM Technologies. The network was designed by Marconi and used equipment from Marconi, Riverstone, WWP, 3Com and Tandberg.
International City developed by Nakheel Properties
offers FTTH built and managed by du.
Subscribers are offered Voice, IPTV and broadband Internet. All services were transported over IP.
The network is now operated by du.
provides FTTB services in Vancouver
, British Columbia
. The carrier provides TV (cable, digital, and HD), digital phone, and up to 300 Mbit/s Internet access to residential and business (SOHO) customers in its service area, as well as provide dark fibre to local businesses.
In August 2007 VIC Communications began providing 10 Mbit/s FTTH to the Ottawa Valley through its Killaloe, Ontario
Service Area, which the company delivers High Speed Internet, Television, and Digital Phone Services to Residential and Business customers.
VIC Communications also offers Fiber-to-the-Node in rural-connectivity through its service area, including additional build plans for 2008 which include Renfrew, Ontario
, Pembroke, Ontario
, and Eganville, Ontario
. The carrier maintains its own Optical Network and Deployment.
Wightman Telecom offers FTTH with zero installation cost to subscribers in Mount Forest, Harriston, Listowel, Hanover and Palmerston in Southwestern Ontario, which carries POTS phone, symmetric 20 Mbit/s Internet access and digital TV (SD and HD) services.
Hurontel Telecommunications Co-operative Limited has announced plans to launch pilot FTTH services in Goderich and Ripley.
Bell Aliant is offering a FTTH which they call Bell Aliant FibreOP and they state is Canada's first 100% fibre-to-the home network to cover an entire city. Available in the Halifax and Sydney areas of Nova Scotia, Fredericton, Saint John and Moncton areas of New Brunswick and Charlottetown, PEI. The service is in the process of being installed in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Speeds are up to 170 Mbit/s.
The second provider to offer FTTH is Brasil Telecom (bought by Oi Telecomunicações in Abr 2008), offering speeds up to 100 Mbit/s on downstream, and 5 Mbit/s on upstream. The service is now marketed in ten states. Oi is now offering its own FTTH operation, in its original service area, completing the BrT's area operation.
GVT launched, in August 2009, FTTH service in 56 cities, including major markets like Porto Alegre
, Curitiba
, Belo Horizonte
and Salvador
. GVT offer speeds up 100 Mbit/s downstream and 10 Mbit/s upstream.
The second provider is Surnet (another subsidiary of GrupoGTD like GTD Manquehue) that offers Triple Play Plans with speeds up to 100 Mbit/s. This service is available in the major cities of the southern regions of Chile.
The Australian Government is in the process of rolling out an A$36.9 billion open-access National Broadband Network
comprising GPON-based FTTP services to 93% of the Australian population at speeds up to 1Gbit/s, with the remainder of the population to be serviced by fixed-wireless and satellite technologies. The network will be built and operated by a Government Business Enterprise
, NBN Co Limited.
Construction began with trial sites in Tasmania
in 2009, with the first services commencing in July 2010. The network is scheduled for completion in December 2021. The Tasmanian NBN trial sites were operated by Opticomm
on behalf of NBN Co.
Other FTTP installations in Australia include greenfield estates deployed by private companies including Arise, BES, Comverge, Fuzeconnect, Openetworks, Opticomm
, Pivit, Syncaccess Group, Telstra
, and TransACT
. In 2009, Opticomm became the first company to offer a 100Mbit/s residential service in Australia.
, the major telecommunications company in New Zealand
, started a FTTP trial (dubbed Next Generation Broadband) in a new subdivision (Flat Bush
) in South Auckland
in May 2006. The NGB provides up to 30 Mbit/s downstream speeds over a Passive Optical Network (PON) with the only cost to the customers during the trial being a NZ$49.95 activation fee. Vector Communications provides FTTP in wider regions of Auckland
CBD and Wellington
CBD, and extended network of over 770 km. FTTP services are available from Citylink in Wellington and the pricing makes it suitable for businesses only.
On 22 April 2008, the National party announced a $1.5B plan to roll out of FTTH to 75% of the population, if they were elected.
The rollout of "Ultra Fast Broadband" (UFB) began in 2010, with FTTH will be rolled out to all major urban areas, covering 75% of the country's population, by 2019. FTTH will also be rolled out to large users (e.g. hospitals and schools) outside these areas. The remainder will receive FTTN service, with the connection between the cabinet and the customer's premises utilising the existing copper telephone network and ADSL.
Kenya
Zuku FIBRE broadband residential and SOHO packages 1Mbps, 4Mbit/s and 8Mbit/s currently available in NairobiNairobi
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’s Kileleshwa, Kilimani and Lavington suburbs. Also available as Triple-Play bundles.
China
In APOC 2003 (Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications) held in WuhanWuhan
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, many Chinese telecom
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experts discussed FTTH (fiber to the home) in China for the first time in the last a few years. The topics include FTTH opportunities and challenges, FTTH applications, FTTH network architecture, cost analysis, etc. That forum attracted a lot of attention of China's telecom community and became a starting point for this new FTTH wave.
Hong Kong
As of April 2006, HKBN was offering its customers Internet accessInternet access
Many technologies and service plans for Internet access allow customers to connect to the Internet.Consumer use first became popular through dial-up connections in the 20th century....
via fiber to the building and fiber to the home. Speeds ranged from 10 Mbit/s (19 USD/month) to up to 1000 Mbit/s (1 Gbit/s) (215 USD/month), although the speed to non-Hong Kong destinations was capped at 20 Mbit/s. And in October 2007, the largest telecom giant in Hong Kong -- PCCW
PCCW
PCCW Limited is the holding company of HKT Group Holdings Limited, Hong Kong's premier telecommunications provider in the Information and Communications Technologies industry. PCCW also holds a majority interest in Pacific Century Premium Developments Limited...
started to offer both 100 Mbit/s and 1000 Mbit/s FTTH Internet plans for consumers. As November 2007, their cost is around USD75 and USD280 respectively without any speed cap on overseas traffic.
India
FTTB services are currently supplied in Hyderabad by Beam Telecom, offering a variety of plans for home users up to 6 Mbit/s, "power users" up to 20 Mbit/s and enterprises up to 30 Mbit/s. Beam Telecom have also launched fristever FTTH Solution in Hyderabad in three major townships by end of 2010, they have planned to complete FTTH setup in 20 upcoming townships by the end of 2011.Triple-play FTTH services are due to be launched in 2011 by Hayai Broadband. Services will be offered via an entirely Passive Optical Network
Passive optical network
A passive optical network is a point-to-multipoint, fiber to the premises network architecture in which unpowered optical splitters are used to enable a single optical fiber to serve multiple premises, typically 16-128. A PON consists of an optical line terminal at the service provider's central...
, allowing speeds of 100+ Mbit/s to the Internet and 1000+ Mbit/s (1 Gbit/s) within its own network. The coverage area will include most suburbs in Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
and the company has announced intentions to spread to other cities and even rural areas. It has coverage ready in the Northern Suburbs of Mumbai based on a UTStarcom platform, however the company expects to replace this with a platform by either Alcatel Lucent or Motorola
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
.
BSNL has launched an FTTH service in Jaipur in late 2010 http://www.bsnl.co.in/service/bb_ftth.htm
Indonesia
Biznet Networks is a network provider in Indonesia. Being the first one who deployed this service in South East Asia, Biznet Metro FTTH network uses the latest Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GE-PON) based networking technology. Supported by Nokia Siemens, this network is capable of delivering Triple Play services that consist of Data (Internet or Intranet), Voice (VoIP) and Video (Interactive TV and Multimedia) in a single infrastructure. This network is capable of supporting up to 1 Gbyte/s data transfer.First Media
First Media
First Media is a triple play Cable Television network in Indonesia.The products are Fastnet, HomeCable, and DataComm. Because First Media is a relatively new company the coverage area is limited.-FastNet:...
, a company born from Lippo
Lippó
Lippó is a village in Baranya county, Hungary.-Reference:...
group's new $650 million investment in Internet in Indonesia
Internet in Indonesia
Internet in Indonesia is a relatively new communication media in Indonesia, an archipelago that spans over more than 17,000 islands. Several internet services are available in Indonesia, ranging from ADSL to mobile internet...
, as well as cable television, began offering FTTH (using coaxial cable
Coaxial cable
Coaxial cable, or coax, has an inner conductor surrounded by a flexible, tubular insulating layer, surrounded by a tubular conducting shield. The term coaxial comes from the inner conductor and the outer shield sharing the same geometric axis...
not Optical Fiber
Optical fiber
An optical fiber is a flexible, transparent fiber made of a pure glass not much wider than a human hair. It functions as a waveguide, or "light pipe", to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber. The field of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of...
), branded as FastNet, on 8 September.
Japan
FTTP, often called FTTH in JapanJapan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, was first introduced in 1999, and did not become a large player until 2001. In 2003-2004, FTTH grew at a remarkable rate, while DSL
Digital Subscriber Line
Digital subscriber line is a family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. DSL originally stood for digital subscriber loop. In telecommunications marketing, the term DSL is widely understood to mean Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ,...
's growth slowed. 10.5 million FTTH connections are reported as of September 2007 in Japan. Currently, many people are switching from DSL to FTTH, the use of DSL is decreasing, with the peak of DSL usage being March 2006. On September 17, 2008, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
The ' or Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is a cabinet-level ministry in the Government of Japan. The English name Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications was used prior to 2004...
reported that for the first time, the number of FTTH connections (13.08 million connections) eclipsed that of DSL (12.29 million connections) and became the biggest means of broadband connection in Japan at 45% of total compared to that of DSL at 42%. In the report, the number of FTTH connections grew by 929,681 during the period of March to June 2008 while the number of DSL connections declined by 420,706 during the same period.
Average real-world speed of FTTH is 66 Mbit/s in the whole of Japan, and 78 Mbit/s in Tokyo.
FTTH first started with 10 Mbit/s (end-user rate) passive optical network
Passive optical network
A passive optical network is a point-to-multipoint, fiber to the premises network architecture in which unpowered optical splitters are used to enable a single optical fiber to serve multiple premises, typically 16-128. A PON consists of an optical line terminal at the service provider's central...
(PON) by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
, commonly known as NTT, is a Japanese telecommunications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Ranked the 31st in Fortune Global 500, NTT is the largest telecommunications company in Asia, and the second-largest in the world in terms of revenue....
(NTT), and 100 Mbit/s (end-user rate) with GEPON (Gigabit Ethernet
Ethernet
Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....
-PON) or broadband PON as the major one in 2006. PON is the major system for FTTH by NTT, but some competitive services present 1 Gbit/s (at end-user rate) with SS (Single Star).
Currently, most people use 100 Mbit/s.
Major application services on fibers are voice over IP
Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol networks, such as the Internet...
, video-IP telephony, IPTV
IPTV
Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...
(IP television), IPv6
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...
services and so on.
Malaysia
Telekom MalaysiaTelekom Malaysia
Telekom Malaysia Berhad , DBA TM, is the largest integrated solutions provider in Malaysia, and one of Asia's leading communications companies, with a market capitalisation of RM13.9 billion and a workforce of 26,629 employees. Established as the Telecommunications Department of Malaya in 1946, it...
officially launched FTTH on 24 March 2010, TM High Speed Broadband (HSBB) to end users in stages. The product name is UniFi
UniFi
UniFi is an amalgamation of “Uni” which denotes togetherness and camaraderie, while “Fi” symbolises fibre optics. This is a new service provided by TM Berhad the leading Integrated Telecommunications provider in Malaysia....
offering speeds from 5 MBPS, 10 MBPS and 20 MBPS for Residential and Corporate Customers.
As of Jun 2011, TM has completed approx. 900K Homepasses (or premises) and has about more than 100,000 customers.
Philippines
Initial tests done by Philippine Long Distance Company or PLDT showed that a FTTH-enabled computer posted download speeds of up to 94.86 megabits per second (mbps) and upload rates of 69.39 Mbit/s. PLDT said FTTH will be initially marketed to high-bandwidth residential customers such as households in high-income subdivisions and condominiums.Pilot areas for PLDT's new service will include Bonifacio Global City in Taguig, Forbes Park, Urdaneta Village, and Dasmarinas Village in Makati City, Ayala Heights in Quezon City, Wack Wack in San Juan, Valle Verde in Mandaluyong, and certain areas covered by PLDT in Subic and Clark free ports.
South Korea
FTTP is offered by various Internet service providers including KT (formerly, Korea Telecom), Hanaro Telecom, and LG Powercom. The connection speed for both downloading and uploading is set to be 100 Mbit/s. Monthly subscription fee ranges between USD20 and USD30 depending on subscription period.Taiwan
Chunghwa TelecomChunghwa Telecom
Chunghwa Telecom is the largest telecommunications company in Taiwan. It has its headquarters in Zhongzheng District, Taipei on the remains of the old Taipei Prison.- History :...
Co offers FTTB for around $30USD. Taiwan ranks 4th highest FTTB penetration rate in the world.
Thailand
CAT Telecom is now offering FTTH service using GEPON in Bangkok and major cities in Thailand. The speed starts at 12 Mbits to 32 Mbits.TOT Public Company also start to offer FTTH service but the information about its package is not release yet.
Bulgaria
FTTH is being deployed by the Internet service provider ITD Network. Available in Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo and some areas in Sofia under the trademark Cooolbox. FTTH: active fiber at each node, providing service-neutral switched environment, based on intelligent 3-tier platform, serving up to 14,000 nodes in each deployment. Uses the same fiber infrastructure as the corporate backbone does. Fully automated services provisioning. 24x7 monitoring and customer care.Diverse double-play and triple-play packages featuring: * High-speed Internet access (up to 40 Mbit/s symmetrical bandwidth) with wireless options featuring high-grade protection and automated equipment configuration * Up to two phone lines and up to 10 reserved DIDs for easy SOHO service upgrade * Value-added voice services like fax-to-email * Digital TV featuring over 80 popular channels incl. HD, customized middleware and high-quality STBs by Motorola. Multiple STBs per subscriber available * Video-on-demand (music and film libraries available) * Online services management
Croatia
The first provider to offer FTTH in CroatiaCroatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
was Vodatel. As of September 2006, Vodatel service was available only in the capital Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
, although plans to cover other major towns also existed at that point. The service offered symmetrical 2/5/10 Mbit/s speeds in triple play packages.
As of mid 2009 T-com.hr equipped a 28floor building in Rijeka at least partly with Fiber to the Homes/Flats offering triple play. The building was announced to be a test site and the service was initially offered free of charge.
Cyprus
In 2007, the island largest telecoms provider, the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTACYTA
CYTA is the national telecommunications provider of Cyprus.The Cyprus Telecommunications Authority , a semi-governmental organisation incorporated by law, is the leading provider of Integrated Electronic Communications in Cyprus...
), signed a contract with Ericsson for a rollout of FTTH.
Czech Republic
In PraguePrague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, a FTTH (1/10/100 Mbit/s) service called ViaGia provided by T-Systems
T-Systems
T-Systems is a worldwide operating ICT provider founded in October 2000. It belongs to Deutsche Telekom AG and its central office is located in Bonn, Germany. Within Deutsche Telekom AG it is responsible for multinational corporations and public-sector institutions. It operates in more than 20...
is available in newer homes built by CentralGroup. UPC, a cable TV and Internet company provides Triple Play Services over FTTH in new buildings. Although there is no information about it on their website.
In Brno
Brno
Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...
, there is a FTTH service called NETBOX at www.netbox.cz provided by SMART Comp. a.s. There are some smaller FTTH networks in Brno
Brno
Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...
, Frýdek-Místek, Šumperk and Most.
Denmark
As of 2006, FTTH was being installed in DenmarkDenmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
in the northern parts of Zealand north and west of Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
. DONG Energy
DONG Energy
-History:The Danish state company Dansk Naturgas A/S was founded in 1972 to manage resources in the Danish sector of the North Sea. After some years, the company was renamed to Dansk Olie og Naturgas A/S . At the beginning of 2000s, DONG started to extend itself into the electricity market by...
does however not provide access to internet, television or telephone by themselves - other providers may rent themselves onto the cable to provide the end customer with anything ranging from simple POTS
Plain old telephone service
Plain old telephone service is the voice-grade telephone service that remains the basic form of residential and small business service connection to the telephone network in many parts of the world....
-like telephony to triple play
Triple play (telecommunications)
In telecommunications, triple play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of two bandwidth-intensive services, high-speed Internet access and television, and a less bandwidth-demanding service, telephone, over a single broadband connection. Triple play focuses on a combined business...
. The installation was being performed by the power company DONG Energy
DONG Energy
-History:The Danish state company Dansk Naturgas A/S was founded in 1972 to manage resources in the Danish sector of the North Sea. After some years, the company was renamed to Dansk Olie og Naturgas A/S . At the beginning of 2000s, DONG started to extend itself into the electricity market by...
as part of a project to convert their airborne power infrastructure into one consisting of underground cables. Their plans called for a completion date of 2010, after which they expected to expand FTTH installation to areas that fell outside of the scope of the power infrastructure conversion project.
Estonia
As of 2010, FTTH networks are fully developed and commercially available in select locations. Speeds up to 100Mbit/s downstream and 20Mbit/s upstream are commercially available for around €35 a month. The same network delivers digital television and is usually marketed as a "home package" (Internet, Digital Television & Landline). The price is the same as current ADSL2 offering which is 12/1Mbit/s. In all cases, TV and Internet share the overall bandwidth, so the more active TV tuners in use at a given time, the less bandwidth is available for Internet use.France
On March 1, 2007, Orange SAOrange SA
Orange is the brand used by France Télécom for its mobile network operator and Internet service provider subsidiaries. It is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world, with 210 million customers . The brand was created in 1994 for Hutchison Telecom's UK mobile phone network, which was...
released their first commercial FTTH offer in Paris at 45€ a month for a 100 Mbit/s Internet connection (flat rate) and a set of services including telephone over IP and television. The fiber installation is free. In June 2006, France Telecom
France Télécom
France Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...
/Orange SA
Orange SA
Orange is the brand used by France Télécom for its mobile network operator and Internet service provider subsidiaries. It is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world, with 210 million customers . The brand was created in 1994 for Hutchison Telecom's UK mobile phone network, which was...
launched a test program for FTTH in some arrondissement
Arrondissement
Arrondissement is any of various administrative divisions of France, certain other Francophone countries, and the Netherlands.-France:The 101 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The capital of an arrondissement is called a...
s of Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. It proposes up to 2.5 Gbit/s downstream and 1.2 Gbit/s upstream per 30 users using PON for 70€ a month.
In September 2006, Free announced a €30 a month triple play
Triple play (telecommunications)
In telecommunications, triple play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of two bandwidth-intensive services, high-speed Internet access and television, and a less bandwidth-demanding service, telephone, over a single broadband connection. Triple play focuses on a combined business...
offer including 100 Mbit/s Internet connection, free phone calls to 42 countries and high-definition television
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
. The roll-out of this service was planned for May 2007, but wide offering has been postponed to September after a detailed presentation during summer. It will be available first in Paris, then other French towns including Montpellier, Lyon and Valenciennes as well as certain Paris suburbs.
A residential fibre service had been deployed in the 15th Arrondissement
Arrondissement
Arrondissement is any of various administrative divisions of France, certain other Francophone countries, and the Netherlands.-France:The 101 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The capital of an arrondissement is called a...
(borough
Borough
A borough is an administrative division in various countries. In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing township although, in practice, official use of the term varies widely....
) of Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
by Cité Fibre. Bandwidth allocated to each user was 100 Mbit/s with 30 Mbit/s reserved for Internet traffic. The package included Digital Television and VoIP Telephone services along with the above-mentioned unlimited Internet starting at 49€ per month. The 15th arrondissement was probably selected for its comparatively high residential population.
Cité Fibre was bought by Free in October 2006 and merged into Free's own FTTH project.
In 2003 Erenis launched an offer of FTTB which evaluate to 100 Mbit/s in January 2007 including the triple play
Triple play (telecommunications)
In telecommunications, triple play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of two bandwidth-intensive services, high-speed Internet access and television, and a less bandwidth-demanding service, telephone, over a single broadband connection. Triple play focuses on a combined business...
. Erenis was bought by Neuf
Neuf Cegetel
Neuf Cegetel is a French wireline telecom services provider and a mobile virtual network operator offering different services to consumers, enterprises and wholesale customers, ranking number two in the country...
on April 2, 2007, and this company is planning to offer a 50 Mbit/s triple play service for €29.90 starting at once (A user reports in fact a debit of 35/10 Mbit/s). In July 2007 Neuf announced it will only use FTTH in new deployments, and that the existing Erenis FTTB users would be switched to FTTH at some time in the future. Neuf also acquired Mediafibre, a company which sold fibre optic access is Pau, France, in January 2007.
Finland
Sonera offers FTTH in some urban areas of Finland, launching a 1 Gbit/s service for 99€ per month.Greece
In September 2008, Transport and Communications Minister Kostas Hatzidakis announced plans to provide FTTH to 2 million homes in AthensAthens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
, Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki , historically also known as Thessalonica, Salonika or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the region of Central Macedonia as well as the capital of the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace...
and 50 other cities across Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
by 2013, at a cost of €2.1 billion and at speeds of "at least" 100 Mbit/s.
Hungary
In HungaryHungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, as of 2009 Magyar Telekom
Magyar Telekom
Magyar Telekom Nyrt. is Hungary's largest telecommunications company. The former monopolist is now a fully consolidated subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom....
is the largest FTTH provider in the country. Fiber-optic services are currently available in the inner districts of Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
, and other major cities like Győr
Gyor
-Climate:-Main sights:The ancient core of the city is Káptalan Hill at the confluence of three rivers: the Danube, Rába and Rábca. Püspökvár, the residence of Győr’s bishops can be easily recognised by its incomplete tower. Győr’s oldest buildings are the 13th-century dwelling tower and the...
and Sopron
Sopron
In 1910 Sopron had 33,932 inhabitants . Religions: 64.1% Roman Catholic, 27.8% Lutheran, 6.6% Jewish, 1.2% Calvinist, 0.3% other. In 2001 the city had 56,125 inhabitants...
. By 2011 the fiber-optic network will be extended to 800.000 households.
Iceland
In IcelandIceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
, FTTH is being deployed by Gagnaveita Reykjavikur, a subsidiary of Orkuveita Reykjavíkur
Orkuveita Reykjavíkur
Orkuveita Reykjavíkur is an Icelandic utility company that provides electricity, geothermal water for heating, and cold water for consumption and fire fighting. It also operates a data-utility network and waste-treatment facilities. The company's service area extends to 20 communities in the...
(Reykjavik Power Company). By March 2006, they had begun connecting the towns of Seltjarnarnes
Seltjarnarnes
Seltjarnarnes is an Icelandic township located within the Greater Reykjavík area.It took on its current political form shortly after the Second World War and was formally created as a township in 1947. It is the smallest Icelandic township by land ....
, Akranes
Akranes
Akranes is a port town and municipality located on the west coast of Iceland.It is the ninth most populous town in Iceland after Mosfellsbær and Árborg with a population of 6,623 people...
and parts of the Greater Reykjavík Area
Greater Reykjavík Area
The Greater Reykjavík Area is a name used collectively for Reykjavík and seven municipalities around it.. The area is the largest urban area in Iceland. Each municipality has its independent elected council. With a population of 200,852, the Greater Reykjavík Area comprises over 60% of the...
. At that time they expected to have 50% of Reykjavik connected by 2008 and all of the Greater Reykjavík Area, Seltjarnes, Akranes, Mosfellsbær
Mosfellsbær
Mosfellsbær is a town in south-west Iceland, situated some east of the country's capital, Reykjavík. It has a total area of and its population as of September, 2011 was 8,886....
, Þorlákshöfn
Þorlákshöfn
Þorlákshöfn is a town on the southern coast of Iceland in the Municipality called Ölfus.The town name is named after Þorláki Helga who was bishop at Skálholt...
and Hveragerði
Hveragerði
Hveragerði is a town and municipality in the south of Iceland located 45 km to the east of Reykjavík on Iceland's main ringroad, Route 1.The river Varmá runs through the town. The population was 2,316 on 1 January 2011.-Overview:...
connected by 2012. However, deployment in other areas was pending due to agreements with city officials. GR only owned the FTTH network; ISP services were provided by HIVE
HIVE (ISP)
HIVE was the 3rd largest Telecommuncations company in Iceland, founded in 2004. It provided broadband ADSL connection and VoIP telephone system as well as Wi-Fi fixed and mobile wireless access....
, Skýrr, and Vortex. As of July 2006, VoIP service were available from HIVE. By March 2007, Vodafone Iceland
Vodafone Iceland
Vodafone Iceland is an Icelandic telecommunications company and is part of the Icelandic IT company Teymi. Although the company carries the Vodafone brand and trademark, Vodafone Group owns no interest in the company, but rather franchises the brand and associated advertising styles to Teymi, the...
was providing ISP and VoIP services, and had introduced video via its Digital Iceland broadcasting system. However, Skýrr had stopped providing ISP services at this point. The FTTH connections are 100 Mbit/s, but as of March 2007 the ISP services only offered speeds of 6 Mbit/s, 8 Mbit/s, 10 Mbit/s, 20 Mbit/s and 30 Mbit/s.
In March 2006, the monthly cost of having the FTTH in house was 1.990 ISK (approx 26 US dollars), not including any services. This was somewhat more expensive than having a phone line in the house which cost 1.340 ISK (approx 18 US dollars) at that time. By June 2009, the monthly cost of having the FTTH in house had risen to 2.390 ISK (approx 19 US dollars at the time), not including any services. By comparison, having a phone line in the house had dropped to 1.147 ISK (approx $9 US dollars) by that time.
Other smaller FTTH providers are Míla
Mila
Mila , is a female name of Slavic Origin. It is a diminutive of Slavic names beginning or ending with Mila which derived from the element Мил Mil meaning "gracious, dear".- Notable people with this name :First...
which operates in recently developed areas in Greater Reykjavík Area, Gagnveita Skagafjarðar operates in Sauðárkrókur
Sauðárkrókur
Sauðárkrókur is a town in Skagafjörður in northern Iceland and a part of the municipality of Skagafjörður.Sauðárkrókur is the largest town in Northwest Iceland and the second-largest town on the north coast of Iceland, with a population of 2,635. It is the centre for commerce and services in the...
and Tengir in Akureyri
Akureyri
Akureyri is a town in northern Iceland. It is Iceland's second largest urban area and fourth largest municipality ....
and its vicinity.
Italy
In ItalyItaly
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, FTTH has been deployed by FASTWEB
Fastweb
FASTWEB S.p.A. is an Italian broadband telecommunications company. It provides voice, Internet, cable television, IPTV and FTTH connection. The cable television and IPTV services were developed by Fastweb themselves as the technology market in 2000 was not mature enough to offer the level of...
since 1999 in selected areas of Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
, Genova
Génova
Génova may refer to:* Spanish spelling of the city of Genoa, Italy* Génova, Quindío, a municipality in the department of Quindío, Colombia* Génova, Quetzaltenango, a municipality in the department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala...
, Bologna
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
and other few cities, however they aren't planning to deploy any more FTTP as DSL deployment is far cheaper. Where FTTP is available, they offer a triple play
Triple play (telecommunications)
In telecommunications, triple play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of two bandwidth-intensive services, high-speed Internet access and television, and a less bandwidth-demanding service, telephone, over a single broadband connection. Triple play focuses on a combined business...
service on a 10/10 Mbit/s Internet connection.
Telecom Italia announced, in March 2008, they would deploy FTTH in 140,000 homes in Milan, by the end of 2008 and in 10 cities the following year (speed up to 1 Gbit/s).
Kosovo
KosovoKosovo
Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
, FTTN (N=Neighborhood) has been deployed by Telecom Kosovo since 2000 in selected areas of Prishtine, Peja, Prizren
Prizren
Prizren is a historical city located in southern Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and district.The city has a population of around 131,247 , mostly Albanians...
, Mitrovice, Ferizaj, Gjilan and other cities in Kosovo. More than 800 km connects 50 locations in MASH topology, in 2010 Telecom Kosovo introduced Triple-Play for its costumers.
Lithuania
FTTH is provided in all major and smaller cities (~30 of them) of Lithuania, mainly by Teo LTTeo LT
Teo LT is a telecommunications company in Lithuania, owned in part by the TeliaSonera group. Teo LT is the largest landline phone operator in Lithuania...
and some smaller local providers. Teo LT are a former state telecom operator now owned by TeliaSonera
TeliaSonera
TeliaSonera AB is the dominant telephone company and mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland. The company has operations in other countries in Northern, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Spain, with a total of 150 million mobile customers...
, and according to local regulatory agency their data communications business accounts for ~69% of the total data service revenue in Lithuania for 2009. They sell FTTH under the brand ZEBRA, there were 63.000 subscribers connected via FTTH at the end of 2009, and there are plans that most of residents in 3 biggest cities - Vilnius
Vilnius
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
(95%), Kaunas
Kaunas
Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the center of a powiat in Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413. During Russian Empire occupation...
(70%) and Klaipėda
Klaipeda
Klaipėda is a city in Lithuania situated at the mouth of the Nemunas River where it flows into the Baltic Sea. It is the third largest city in Lithuania and the capital of Klaipėda County....
(95%) - will have a possibility to connect to FTTH by the end of 2010. According to the FTTH European Rankings of the FTTH Council Europe published February 24, 2010, Lithuania leads Europe in FTTH connectivity with 18% penetration, followed by Sweden, Norway and Slovenia.
Macedonia
In MacedoniaRepublic of Macedonia
Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...
, as of 2010 Makedonski Telekom
Makedonski Telekom
Makedonski Telekom AD is a telecommunications company in the Republic of Macedonia with headquarters in Skopje. It is part of the Magyar Telekom Group, which is a fully consolidated subsidiary of international Deutsche Telekom Group....
is the largest FTTH provider in the country. Fiber-optic services are currently available in the inner districts of Skopje
Skopje
Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...
, and it's expected to expand to the larger cities in the country. The service offers symmetrical 20/40/60 Mbit/s speeds in triple play and double play packages.
Moldova, Republic of
In MoldovaMoldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
FTTB has been deployed by StarNet
StarNet
StarNet is a Moldovan Internet service provider. The company provides Internet services via ADSL and FTTB...
and Arax since 2006 and Moldtelecom
Moldtelecom
Moldtelecom is a national telecommunications operator in Moldova. Created on April 1, 1993 as part of the national telecommunications restructuring, Moldtelecom was a state company. On January 5, 1999 Moldtelecom was reorganized and became a Joint Stock Company with the State being the unique...
since 2008 in the city of Kishinev at first and other towns and regional centers later. Since then the fiber network grew very fast due to intense competition between two dominant ISP's in the country - StarNet and Moldtelecom. The result of this competition is that currently FTTB holds more than 35% of the broadband market in the country and is continuing to increase, slowly pushing back ADSL as the main internet access technology. As of 2010 there are multiple local and only two country-wide ISP's (StarNet and Moldtelecom) that offer internet access via FTTB. StarNet and Moldtelecom both offer 100/100Mbit (symmetrical) internet connection via FTTB in the city of Kishinev and some regional centers with prices around 15€ per month.
Netherlands
In The Netherlands in the city Eindhoven and a nearby village called NuenenNuenen
Nuenen is a town in the municipality of Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten, in the Netherlands.Vincent Van Gogh resided in Nuenen from 1883-1885. During that time he painted many character studies of peasants and weavers that culminated in The Potato Eaters...
, there is a large network with 15 000 connections. Triple play
Triple play (telecommunications)
In telecommunications, triple play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of two bandwidth-intensive services, high-speed Internet access and television, and a less bandwidth-demanding service, telephone, over a single broadband connection. Triple play focuses on a combined business...
is offered. Houses and companies are connected with single-mode fibre. The network is owned by the members themselves, who formed a corporation. The first European FTTH project was also in Eindhoven in a neighborhood known as the "Vlinderflats". This was a multi-mode fibre but was in 2005 changed to single-mode fibre. FTTH resulted in new broadband services; the inhabitants started their own broadband TV station called VlinderTV.
Since October 2006 the fibre optics connections are being deployed in the city of Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
. In the first phase of the deployment there are some 40 000 connections planned with the first ones being available for connection to end users by the February 2007. The network is rolled out in the boroughs of Zeeburg, Oost and Osdorp. The owner of the network is GNA CV, the operator is BBned, a subsidiary of Telecom Italia. BBned operates as a non-discriminating wholesaler of capacity to serviceproviders. This setup with a structural separation of ownership of the network and the delivery of services ensures that the network is open to all.
Also, another company is building new FTTH networks in Arnhem
Arnhem
Arnhem is a city and municipality, situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland and located near the river Nederrijn as well as near the St. Jansbeek, which was the source of the city's development. Arnhem has 146,095 residents as one of the...
, Nijmegen, Amersfoort
Amersfoort
Amersfoort is a municipality and the second largest city of the province of Utrecht in central Netherlands. The city is growing quickly but has a well-preserved and protected medieval centre. Amersfoort is one of the largest railway junctions in the country, because of its location on two of the...
, Hilversum
Hilversum
is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Located in the region called "'t Gooi", it is the largest town in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes, and smaller villages...
, Soest, Leiden and Utrecht
Utrecht (city)
Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
. These networks are almost completed. The first home was connected around March 2005. If all goes according to plan, the last home in these networks will be connected in June 2007. These networks also provide triple play services. Internet connection speed varies from 24, 48 and 100 Mbit/s (up and down).
The city of Deventer
Deventer
Deventer is a municipality and city in the Salland region of the Dutch province of Overijssel. Deventer is largely situated on the east bank of the river IJssel, but also has a small part of its territory on the west bank. In 2005 the municipality of Bathmen Deventer is a municipality and city in...
will be the first city in The Netherlands which will be fully connected with FTTH, at the end of 2009. Already in the first quarter of 2009, more than half of the roughly 100.000 citizens are able to use the FTTH services. Single Pay, Double Pay and Triple Pay are offered, with speeds of 35 and 50 Mbit/s. In the near future, these speeds will be upgraded to 50 and 100 Mbit/s respectively.
Norway
NTE currently provides FTTH/FTTP in Norway for consumer and business. Maximum speed offered is 400 Mbit/s upload and 400 Mbit/s download (800 Mbit/s total bandwidth). NTE is currently expanding at a very quick rate.Portugal
In PortugalPortugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
, ZON
Zon
Żoń is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Margonin, within Chodzież County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Margonin, south-east of Chodzież, and north of the regional capital Poznań....
was created from the old TVCabo spin-off of its mother company PT. Subsequently a large group of smaller cable operators was bought into the new company.
TVTEL
TVTEL
TVTEL was a Portuguese digital satellite and cable pay television service provider. The satellite service started on June 26, 2007, and it was on the Eurobird 9 satellite, broadcasting FTA and Conax-encrypted channels for the entire Europe...
was the first Portuguese ISP to offer FTTH services initially in Oeiras (near Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
) and also in Porto
Porto
Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...
,
Pluricanal was another ISP that offers this kind of access in some neighborhoods on the outskirts of Lisbon. Both TVTel and Pluricanal are now a part of ZON.
ZON based its current expansion program not on the FTTH network but in upgrading the HFC (cable) network to Eurodocsys3.0 (service is at 200 Mbit/s on cable and 1 Gbit/s in FTTH).
Sonaecom with Optimus Clix Fibra was the "arguably" first investing in large-scale fiber optical network, to cover 1,000,000 people by 2011, the triple-play packages include maximum speed of 360 Mbit/s/36 Mbit/s (down/upstream), TV offer with +150 channels is over FTTH and IPTV
IPTV
Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...
, in which the company was first to offer such service in Portugal.
Portugal Telecom
Portugal Telecom
Portugal Telecom is the largest telecommunications service provider in Portugal. Although it operates mainly in Portugal and Brazil, it has also a significant presence in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Timor-Leste, Angola, Kenya, the People's Republic of China, and São Tomé and...
launched the FTTH service in May 2009, the Meo Fibra, that offers a triple-play service at maximum speed (for now) of 200/20 Mbit/s (download/upload), more than 100 TV channels over IPTV and VoIP phone; the coverage is still limited to major cities, but the expansion of the fiber is underway across the country.
A special notice should be mentioned about the late development of PT FTTH network since due to previous "unbundling" problems of the copper DSL network only after getting a guarantee from the respective authorities (Anacom) that they would not be mandated to give free/open access to other companies in their network.
Romania
In RomaniaRomania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
, FTTH was first deployed in Timişoara
Timisoara
Timișoara is the capital city of Timiș County, in western Romania. One of the largest Romanian cities, with an estimated population of 311,586 inhabitants , and considered the informal capital city of the historical region of Banat, Timișoara is the main social, economic and cultural center in the...
by RDS. Currently, it is available in every major city. The name of the service is FiberLink.
Russia
ER-TelecomER-Telecom
ER-Telecom is a Russian telecommunication holding company. It was the first federal telecommunication company, whose evaluation impulse has been received out of the region. The company is specialised on rendering a wide range of services for individuals and corporations.-Owners and leadership:The...
company started construction of the "Universal City Telecommunication Network" (UCTN) in Perm
Perm
Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....
. General principle applied to the construction was FTTH («Optics up to Home»).
On the base of UCTN company offers the following services:
- Cable Television «Divan-TV»
- High-speed broadband Internet Access «DOM.RU»
- IP-telephony «GORSVYAZ»
- Services for corporations («home office» service, videoconference connection, telemetry collecting service etc.).
Slovakia
In SlovakiaSlovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
, FTTH was first deployed in Bratislava
Bratislava
Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...
, Piešťany
Pieštany
Piešťany is a town in Slovakia. It is located in the western part of the country within the Trnava Region and is the seat of its own district. It is the biggest and best known spa town in Slovakia and has around 30,000 inhabitants.-History:...
and Trnava
Trnava
Trnava is a city in western Slovakia, 47 km to the north-east of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of a kraj and of an okres . It was the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric . The city has a historic center...
by Orange
Orange SA
Orange is the brand used by France Télécom for its mobile network operator and Internet service provider subsidiaries. It is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world, with 210 million customers . The brand was created in 1994 for Hutchison Telecom's UK mobile phone network, which was...
. End user speed is 70/8 Mbit/s (down/up).The name of the service is Orange Doma
Another FTTx connectivity is available in Michalovce
Michalovce
Michalovce is a town on the Laborec river in eastern Slovakia, with a population around 40,000. It is the biggest town of the Michalovce District in the Košice Region.-Geography:...
by GeCom, s.r.o, which offers FTTB+ETTH variant at speeds up to 33/33 Mbit/s (down/up).
FTTx connectivity is available in Košice
Košice
Košice is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary...
by Antik computers & communications.
Slovenia
In SloveniaSlovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
, FTTH was first deployed in Kranj
Kranj
' is the third largest municipality and fourth largest city in Slovenia, with a population of 54,500 . It is located approximately 20 km north-west of Ljubljana...
by T-2
T-2 (ISP)
T-2 is the second largest telecommunications provider in Slovenia. It was established on 15 May 2004.T-2 offers VDSL, FTTH, VoIP, 3G and IPTV connectivity to physical and business residents....
company. Currently optical fiber infrastructure for FTTH is being built by Gratel and Telekom Slovenije in Šenčur, Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
, Koper, Novo Mesto
Novo Mesto
Novo Mesto is a city and municipality in southeastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. The town is traditionally considered the economic and cultural centre of the historic Lower Carniola region.-Geography:...
, Murska Sobota
Murska Sobota
Murska Sobota is a city in northeastern Slovenia. It is located in the eponymous municipality near the Mura River in the region of Prekmurje and is the regional capital.-Name:...
, Maribor
Maribor
Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia with 157,947 inhabitants . Maribor is also the largest and the capital city of Slovenian region Lower Styria and the seat of the Municipality of Maribor....
, Slovenska Bistrica
Slovenska Bistrica
Slovenska Bistrica is a town and a municipality south of Maribor in eastern Slovenia. It is one of the largest municipalities in Slovenia. Traditionally the area was part of the Lower Styria region. The municipality is now included in the Drava statistical region. The town was established in the...
, Velenje
Velenje
Velenje is a town and municipality in northern Slovenia. The municipality has 33.331 inhabitants. Staro Velenje is first mentioned in written doucments dating to 1264 and 1374 as small market town and was a center of handicraft and trade...
, Nova Gorica
Nova Gorica
Nova Gorica ; 21,082 ; 31,000 ) is a town and a municipality in western Slovenia, on the border with Italy...
and Jesenice. The plan by both companies is to cover all the major and smaller towns first before they roll out fiber to suburbs. T-2 FTTH speed ranges from 10/10Mbit/s (€22/month),, 20/20Mbit/s (€28/month), 50/50Mbit/s (€39/month), 100/10Mbit/s (€27/month), 100/100Mbit/s (€49/month) up to 1 Gbit/s (€1,000/month). Telekom Slovenije offers FTTH speeds from 20 Mbit/s (€26/month) upward.
In mid 2011, T-2
T-2 (ISP)
T-2 is the second largest telecommunications provider in Slovenia. It was established on 15 May 2004.T-2 offers VDSL, FTTH, VoIP, 3G and IPTV connectivity to physical and business residents....
has finished negotiations with Gratel to greatly expand FTTH penetration in its home city Maribor
Maribor
Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia with 157,947 inhabitants . Maribor is also the largest and the capital city of Slovenian region Lower Styria and the seat of the Municipality of Maribor....
, where the T-2
T-2 (ISP)
T-2 is the second largest telecommunications provider in Slovenia. It was established on 15 May 2004.T-2 offers VDSL, FTTH, VoIP, 3G and IPTV connectivity to physical and business residents....
's main offices are located. The expanditure is rumored to connect more than 25,000 new households including skyscrapers in the city's south center area Tabor
Tabor
-Places:* Mount Tabor * Tábor, Czech Republic** Taborite, member of a 15th century Czech religious group considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church* Tabor, Slovenia, town and municipality...
(the right/south side of the river). The construction has started immediately and is continuing rapidly.
Spain
In Spain, the first FTTH network commercially deployed is in the mining valleys of Asturias. The network is currently (June 2007) being built and is planned for launch shortly. The networks covers 30.000 households in smaller towns in the mining districts of Asturias. The network uses AlcatelAlcatel
Alcatel Mobile Phones is a brand of mobile handsets. It was established in 2004 as a joint venture between Alcatel-Lucent of France and TCL Communication of China....
equipment and is PON based with 2.5G downstream and 1.25G upstream capacity per 32 homes. The network has an Open Access FTTH Network architecture allowing end users to select from several different service providers. website
Sweden
Sweden has a vast number of installed FTTH connections both in rural and suburban areas.Municipalities and private companies are using blown fiber and cable in metro networks. For metro networks, fibre cable are used with fibre counts ranging from eight to 96 SM, and blown fibre with bundles of 8 fibers or less, for connecting houses and apartments.
Competitors to Telia, the Swedish incumbent, helped to drive the early development of fiberbased broadband installations made by Bredbandsbolaget
Bredbandsbolaget
Bredbandsbolaget is a Swedish Internet service provider owned by Telenor. It was founded in 1998 with a focus on high-speed Internet connection for homes and businesses using optical fiber. It is the second largest ISP in Sweden ....
and others. For instance by municipality owned power companies and housing corporations.
Stokab, Stockholm’s city-owned network company, is the owner of one of the largest dark fiber
Dark fiber
A dark fiber or unlit fiber is an unused Optical fiber, available for use in fiber-optic communication.The term dark fiber was originally used when referring to the potential network capacity of telecommunication infrastructure, but now also refers to the increasingly common practice of leasing...
city networks in Europe.
Ribbon cables, new micro cables and blown fiber used by Stokab, are facilitating the installation. New smart network designs, cuts construction costs and eliminates the need to dig up streets and sidewalks to connect building properties one by one. Stokab installs a fibre optic cable from its metro network into the basement of a building where it terminates all the fibres from the street. From the termination box Stokab then installs a multiduct with micro ducts that goes through all the basements on the block to form a ring. Each building has a ‘delivery point’ from which Stokab can connect a micro duct when the building owner wants fibre.
Stokab has connected so far 10 city blocks in central Stockholm during 2006, which each have about 250 apartments. Stokab plans to connect 100 more blocks in 2007 -2008. Some of the biggest scale projects are now built in Stockholm, where housing corporations use micro duct to blow cable and fiber to connect tenants. In Stockholm, housing corporations (Svenska Bostäder, Stockholmshem, Familjebostäder) will connect more than 100,000 apartments over the next coming years forming the worlds largest Open Fiber To The Home network. Tenants can chose among competing service providers of Internet, telephony and TV.
The dominating active FTTH technology used in Sweden is AON, some few PON based project are also up and running.
A standard for national certification of fiberinstallers has been formed in order to keep high installation quality and lower maintenance costs.
As of March 2009, Sweden has 8% of households connected with fiber, making Sweden number one in Europe FTTH-wise.
In Autumn 2010, Sweden is due to launch 1 Gbit/s in some areas for 999SEK per month.
Switzerland
In Switzerland, the first FTTH network started in January 2007, exclusively in Basel. The company CATV Satellitentechnik planned and built a FTTH installation for several apartment buildings, totalling 190 apartments. Four fibers are connected to each of the apartments, one for television, one for telephone and internet, one for the facility-management. The final cable is for backup purposes. The service enables internet speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s full-duplex.Turkey
Tellcom started its FTTB service "QuikNET" on December 2007. The initial tariff had 100/100 Mbit/s service at a price of 109 TL/month (~=73 $/month).Superonline (an ADSL operator) acquired Tellcom on 01.05.2009 and continued the fiber internet service on highly populated buildings, along with its ADSL service. Current name of the fiber internet service is "Superonline Fiber Internet".
Currently offered tariffs are 10/1 Mbit/s (99 TL/month ~= 65 $/month), 20/5 Mbit/s (199TL ~= 135 $/month), 50/5 Mbit/s (399TL ~= 265 $/month, and 100/5 Mbit/s (599TL ~=400 $/month).
Tariffs include low priced fiber packages with download quotas, and after quota limits are reached, extra downloads cost fees depending on the amount of the download. (9.4 TL / GB =~ 6.3$ / GB)
Finally there are packages with "fair use policy" which limit the fiber speed to 512/128 kbit/s once download caps are reached. The download caps are set at 5 times the download speed and 10 times the upload speed in terms of GB (As an example, 10/1 Mbit/s "fair use" tariff has 50 GB/10 GB fair usage quotas).
Superonline's "fair use policy" tariffs, price increases for the unlimited tariffs (73 $/month to 400 $/month for the 100 Mbit unlimited tariff), and the reduced upload speeds (From symmetrical upload speed to 5 Mbit upload speed) have created a controversy among its users, and a protest group was formed condemning Superonline for its actions.
Superonline announced on its April 2010 monthly bill that after June 15, 2010, all upload speeds will be decreased to 1 Mbit/s for the fiber internet tariffs. This includes the 20/5 Mbit/s, 50/5 Mbit/s and 100/5 Mbit/s tariffs, thus after June 15, 2010, these tariffs will be 20/1 Mbit/s, 50/1 Mbit/s and 100/1 Mbit/s. (100/1 service with a download to upload ratio of 100:1 is the most asymmetrical fiber connection in the world.) However on 15 May 2010, Superonline later sent an e-mail to its customers stating that this announcement on the bills was a "technical glitch" which should be ignored. This incident decreased Superonline's credibility among its fiber internet customers.
Superonline announced on July 9, 2010 that customers would be discriminated according to their internet service starting dates. Customers who started using fiber internet before March 15 2010 will not be affected by the "fair usage policy", thus they will be able to download unlimited data while paying half the price of unlimited tariffs or in other words paying the same price as a fair usage limited user and downloading unlimited data.
Ukraine
In Ukraine, first FTTH project launched in OdessaOdessa
Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...
in 2006 by Comstar-Ukraine, LLC. Local branch of Comstar-UTS, Russia. Project aimed to prepare a basic network for TriplePlay services deployment. Along with the broadband internet service on April 2008 Comstar-Ukraine presented to the market first in Ukraine commercial IPTV project, which presently supports HDTV and Dolby 5.1 sound.
Later 2007 FTTP project in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
was deployed by Svitonline/Golden Telecom
Golden Telecom
Golden Telecom is a trademark of EDN Sovintel, LLC , of Russia.In 2008, Sovintel was acquired by Vimpelcom .-Golden Telecom Inc.:Golden Telecom Inc. is an offshore company to support operations of Golden Telecom.-History:...
. Svitonline proposes such tariffs: "Hourly": 20₴ (€2,70)/month, 25 hours included, ₴1 (€0,01)./hour above included. "Standart": 80₴ (€10,81)/month, 11 GiBs included, ₴0,01 (€0,001)/MiB above included. "Unlimited": 200₴ (€27)/month.
Speed for all of the tariffs is 100 Mbit/s.
United Kingdom
BT Openreach started a pilot at Ebbsfleet in Kent, Highams Park in London and Milton Keynes offering speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s, and have plans to make FTTP available to 2.5 million homes and businesses by 2012 http://www.btplc.com/news/articles/showarticle.cfm?articleid={bc50a7e9-7b75-4c22-a443-410a7083411f}.H2O Networks
H2O Networks
H2O Networks is a British Telecommunications company who are currently supposed to be rolling out Fibrecity around the UK. They were formally part of the i3 Group....
, part of the i3 Group, is rolling out Fibrecity
Fibrecity
Fibrecity Holdings was formerly owned by i3 Group and was acquired in January 2011 by CityFibre Holdings Ltd because of the scale and value of the fibre to the home network already built in Bournemouth, currently the largest in the UK....
, offering Residential FTTH in Bournemouth, Northampton and Dundee.
Israel
Ministry of communication approved the pilot is being run by Israel Electric Company (IEC) to connect 100 residential homes in city of Kiryat ShmonaKiryat Shmona
Kiryat Shmona is a city located in the North District of Israel on the western slopes of the Hula Valley on the Lebanese border. The city was named for the eight people, including Joseph Trumpeldor, who died in 1920 defending Tel Hai....
by FTTH.
Jordan
Jordan Cable Services JCS was founded in 2003 as a private company and it has a view to realize a cable TV and internet network (FTTH technology) in Jordan.On 11 April 2007 Jordan Cable TV & Internet Services obtained from the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission the individual license to build communications networks.
Kuwait
South Surra, in four cities, Alsalam, Hutteen, Alshuhada, and future Seddeek. The project started on 2003, service has completed but with a lot of errors in installations (mixed up phone numbers, inactive additional services like CallerId). The equipment is from AlcatelAlcatel
Alcatel Mobile Phones is a brand of mobile handsets. It was established in 2004 as a joint venture between Alcatel-Lucent of France and TCL Communication of China....
. A typical installation has four RJ32 female sockets and two RJ45 female sockets.
On May 2, 2007 Internet is offered for premises with Fibre.
Lebanon
In April 2009, Lebanese Minister of Communications Gebran BassilGebran Bassil
Gebran Bassil is a Lebanese politician,he is also a member of the March 8 Alliance-backed Free Patriotic Movement. Owing to his immense qualifications he served as the Minister of Telecommunications in the Lebanese cabinet from May 2008 to June 2009, and then served as Minister of Energy in the...
unveiled a study to provide FTTH to 40,000 subscribers residing on Hamra Street
Hamra Street
Hamra Street , or Rue Hamra, is one of the main streets of the city of Beirut, Lebanon, and one of the main economic and diplomatic hubs of Beirut. Due to the numerous sidewalk cafes and theatres, Hamra Street was the center of intellectual activity in Beirut during the 1960s and 1970s...
and to 35,000 others residing in Achrafieh
Achrafieh
Achrafieh, , is one of the oldest Christian districts of East Beirut, Lebanon.-Overview:It is located on a hill in the eastern part of Beirut alongside the shore. Achrafieh is both a residential and commercial district characterized by narrow winding streets and prestigious large apartment and...
, both located in Beirut. If approved by the cabinet, the system will take 10 months to be completed. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=101418
Qatar
Incumbent telecommunications operator, QtelQtel
Qtel used to be the exclusive telecommunications provider in Qatar and is one of the largest public companies in Qatar with about 2000 employees. It was successfully launched on the Doha Securities Market in 1998 and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1999, the Bahrain Stock Exchange in 2001...
, announced in March 2010 a plan to roll out an FTTP network across the country. Construction began in August 2010 with completion expected in late-2013. The network will be connected to all homes and businesses in the country and offer speeds of 100Mbit/s.
United Arab Emirates
The first FTTH project in the UAE went live in September 2002. The network initially served subscribers within Emaar Properties PJSC developments such as Dubai MarinaDubai Marina
Dubai Marina is a district in the heart of what has become known as "new Dubai" in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai Marina is a canal city, carved along a two mile stretch of Persian Gulf shoreline. When the entire development is complete, it will accommodate more than 120,000 people in...
, Emirates Lakes, Hills, Springs and the Arabian Ranches.
The network was operated by a subsidiary of Emaar Properties called SAHM Technologies. The network was designed by Marconi and used equipment from Marconi, Riverstone, WWP, 3Com and Tandberg.
International City developed by Nakheel Properties
Nakheel Properties
Nakheel is a real estate developer in Dubai and creator of several land reclamation projects, including the Palm Islands, the Dubai Waterfront, The World and The Universe Islands. Its residential projects include The Gardens, International City, Jumeirah Islands and Jumeirah Lake Towers. Its...
offers FTTH built and managed by du.
Subscribers are offered Voice, IPTV and broadband Internet. All services were transported over IP.
The network is now operated by du.
Canada
NovusNovus (ftth carrier)
Novus Entertainment is a Canadian telecommunications company providing television, digital phone, and high-speed Internet services via a fibre optic network. The company is licensed by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission as a Class 1 Broadcast Distribution Undertaking...
provides FTTB services in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
. The carrier provides TV (cable, digital, and HD), digital phone, and up to 300 Mbit/s Internet access to residential and business (SOHO) customers in its service area, as well as provide dark fibre to local businesses.
In August 2007 VIC Communications began providing 10 Mbit/s FTTH to the Ottawa Valley through its Killaloe, Ontario
Killaloe, Ontario
Killaloe is a town located in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada in the township of Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards. Geographically it is located in Eastern Ontario. The shores of Golden Lake are located to the east, which is well known for quality angling and year round recreation...
Service Area, which the company delivers High Speed Internet, Television, and Digital Phone Services to Residential and Business customers.
VIC Communications also offers Fiber-to-the-Node in rural-connectivity through its service area, including additional build plans for 2008 which include Renfrew, Ontario
Renfrew
-Local government:The town of Renfrew gave its name to a number of local government areas used at various times:*Renfrew a town to the west of Glasgow*Renfrewshire, the present unitary local council area in which Renfrew is situatated....
, Pembroke, Ontario
Pembroke, Ontario
Pembroke is a city in the province of Ontario, Canada, at the confluence of the Muskrat River and the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley...
, and Eganville, Ontario
Eganville, Ontario
Eganville is a small community occupying a deep limestone valley carved at the Fifth Chute of the Bonnechere River in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It is in the township of Bonnechere Valley. This village also has two of the most popular restaurants in the upper Ottawa Valley: The Granary and...
. The carrier maintains its own Optical Network and Deployment.
Wightman Telecom offers FTTH with zero installation cost to subscribers in Mount Forest, Harriston, Listowel, Hanover and Palmerston in Southwestern Ontario, which carries POTS phone, symmetric 20 Mbit/s Internet access and digital TV (SD and HD) services.
Hurontel Telecommunications Co-operative Limited has announced plans to launch pilot FTTH services in Goderich and Ripley.
Bell Aliant is offering a FTTH which they call Bell Aliant FibreOP and they state is Canada's first 100% fibre-to-the home network to cover an entire city. Available in the Halifax and Sydney areas of Nova Scotia, Fredericton, Saint John and Moncton areas of New Brunswick and Charlottetown, PEI. The service is in the process of being installed in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Speeds are up to 170 Mbit/s.
Argentina
In Argentina, telecommunications firm IPlan http://www.iplan.com.ar offers since its launch in the year 2000 a fiber optic backbone throughout the city of Buenos Aires, and extending into other provincial capitals like Rosario, La Plata, and Cordoba city. They provide Internet, telephony, and value-added services over that network. They reach the customer using Cisco's Long Reach Ethernet and using Cisco Catalyst switches. IPlan's network reaches over 3,000 connected buildings http://www.canalar.com.ar/noticias/noticiamuestra.asp?Id=3462.Brazil
Telefonica launched, in São Paulo, its FTTH service in 3Q 2007 with an initial speed of 30, 60 and 100 Mbit/s in downstream, and 5 Mbit/s with upstream, and also offering an IPTV on-demand service, and a convergent POTS and mobile pack. Initially only available in the Jardins neighborhood, its currently expanding to other regions.The second provider to offer FTTH is Brasil Telecom (bought by Oi Telecomunicações in Abr 2008), offering speeds up to 100 Mbit/s on downstream, and 5 Mbit/s on upstream. The service is now marketed in ten states. Oi is now offering its own FTTH operation, in its original service area, completing the BrT's area operation.
GVT launched, in August 2009, FTTH service in 56 cities, including major markets like Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre is the tenth most populous municipality in Brazil, with 1,409,939 inhabitants, and the centre of Brazil's fourth largest metropolitan area . It is also the capital city of the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian...
, Curitiba
Curitiba
Curitiba is the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the largest city with the biggest economy of both Paraná and southern Brazil. The population of Curitiba numbers approximately 1.75 million people and the latest GDP figures for the city surpass US$61 billion according to...
, Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
and Salvador
Salvador, Bahia
Salvador is the largest city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first...
. GVT offer speeds up 100 Mbit/s downstream and 10 Mbit/s upstream.
Chile
The first provider to offer FTTH in Chile was GTD-Manquehue (2005). This service is available only in some sectors of the capital city Santiago. The service offered symmetrical 100 Mbit/s speed.The second provider is Surnet (another subsidiary of GrupoGTD like GTD Manquehue) that offers Triple Play Plans with speeds up to 100 Mbit/s. This service is available in the major cities of the southern regions of Chile.
Venezuela
First Deployment for 2000-Home FTTH Project in Maracay, Venezuela. In a first phase project to bring fiber to more than half million residents.Australia
The first FTTH network deployed in Australia was delivered in 2001 by Bright Telecommunications - a subsidiary of Western Power the state power company. Bright Telecommunications initially deployed Fibre to the Curb by Marconi and a PtP FTTH solution from Entrasys, but later progressed to a GePON product from Alloptic. Bright telecommunications was sold to Silk Telecom (now Nextgen) in 2007.The Australian Government is in the process of rolling out an A$36.9 billion open-access National Broadband Network
National Broadband Network
The National Broadband Network is a national wholesale-only, open-access data network under development in Australia. Up to one gigabit per second connections are sold to retail service providers , who then sell Internet access and other services to consumers...
comprising GPON-based FTTP services to 93% of the Australian population at speeds up to 1Gbit/s, with the remainder of the population to be serviced by fixed-wireless and satellite technologies. The network will be built and operated by a Government Business Enterprise
Government-owned corporation
A government-owned corporation, state-owned company, state-owned entity, state enterprise, publicly owned corporation, government business enterprise, or parastatal is a legal entity created by a government to undertake commercial activities on behalf of an owner government...
, NBN Co Limited.
Construction began with trial sites in Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
in 2009, with the first services commencing in July 2010. The network is scheduled for completion in December 2021. The Tasmanian NBN trial sites were operated by Opticomm
Opticomm
OptiComm is the largest builder and operater of Fibre to the Premises networks in Australia. The company focuses on delivering FTTP solutions in Greenfield estates using the "Open Access, Wholesale Only" business model created by Stephen Davies - the same model that has now been adopted by the...
on behalf of NBN Co.
Other FTTP installations in Australia include greenfield estates deployed by private companies including Arise, BES, Comverge, Fuzeconnect, Openetworks, Opticomm
Opticomm
OptiComm is the largest builder and operater of Fibre to the Premises networks in Australia. The company focuses on delivering FTTP solutions in Greenfield estates using the "Open Access, Wholesale Only" business model created by Stephen Davies - the same model that has now been adopted by the...
, Pivit, Syncaccess Group, Telstra
Telstra
Telstra Corporation Limited is an Australian telecommunications and media company, building and operating telecommunications networks and marketing voice, mobile, internet access and pay television products and services....
, and TransACT
TransACT
TransACT Capital Communications is an Australian telecommunications company based in Canberra which provides broadband internet access, fixed telephony, cable television services, and mobile phone services in Canberra and a subset of these services in Queanbeyan, throughout South-east New South...
. In 2009, Opticomm became the first company to offer a 100Mbit/s residential service in Australia.
New Zealand
Telecom New ZealandTelecom New Zealand
Telecom New Zealand is a New Zealand-wide communications service provider , providing fixed line telephone services, a mobile network, an internet service provider , a major ICT provider to NZ businesses , and a wholesale network infrastructure provider to other NZ CSPs...
, the major telecommunications company in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, started a FTTP trial (dubbed Next Generation Broadband) in a new subdivision (Flat Bush
Flat Bush
Flat Bush is a developing suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. Located near Manukau Heights, it is governed by the Auckland Council, which has planned for the area to undergo substantial development since buying 290 hectares there in 1996...
) in South Auckland
South Auckland
South Auckland is an imprecisely defined area of Auckland, New Zealand, often stereotyped as a socio-economically disadvantaged, and sometimes rough, urban area with a relatively large Polynesian and Māori population. The name South Auckland is not an official place name but is in common use by New...
in May 2006. The NGB provides up to 30 Mbit/s downstream speeds over a Passive Optical Network (PON) with the only cost to the customers during the trial being a NZ$49.95 activation fee. Vector Communications provides FTTP in wider regions of Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
CBD and Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
CBD, and extended network of over 770 km. FTTP services are available from Citylink in Wellington and the pricing makes it suitable for businesses only.
On 22 April 2008, the National party announced a $1.5B plan to roll out of FTTH to 75% of the population, if they were elected.
The rollout of "Ultra Fast Broadband" (UFB) began in 2010, with FTTH will be rolled out to all major urban areas, covering 75% of the country's population, by 2019. FTTH will also be rolled out to large users (e.g. hospitals and schools) outside these areas. The remainder will receive FTTN service, with the connection between the cabinet and the customer's premises utilising the existing copper telephone network and ADSL.