Telekom Austria announced its plans to selectively roll out a blend of fiber-to-the curb, fiber-to-the-building and fiber-to-the-home infrastructure in 2009 and 2010 to gain experience and validate planning assumptions to take an informed decision on the further deployment of fiber infrastructure.
The plan is to cover about 150,000 households equivalent to 4% of households with speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s in the city of Klagenfurt and in two districts in Vienna. One is an upscale neighborhood with scattered housing, the other is a residential neighborhood with high building density. Furthermore, a trial using fiber-to-the-curb infrastructure will be launched in Villach, a medium sized town in the south of Austria later this year.
Topography, building density and the blend of residential and business customer of the areas chosen are representative for urban Austria and will provide valuable learning on the deployment cost of fiber infrastructure and insights into customer acceptance of products and pricing of premium services such as ultra fast internet access with initial speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s, innovative internet based and HD TV services including Video on Demand.
The Telekom Austria Group also announced its intention to start rolling out VDSL2 in selected rural areas in Austria towards end of 2009 using existing fiber back bone infrastructure and the migration to a NGN voice platform to significantly increase available bandwidth at very low incremental investments.
Past glass fiber investments in the backbone infrastructure allow to deliver bandwidths of up to 30 Mbit/s to about 750,000 households by 2012 equivalent to a coverage of about 15% of households around selected central offices. This initiative will enable Telekom Austria to offer high bandwidth service to more than 300,000 households already at the end of 2009.
The higher bandwidth will strengthen the market position of Telekom Austria within the targeted areas, increase the addressable market of aonTV and allow the Fixed Net segment to effectively differentiate from mobile broadband offerings of other operators.
The plan is to cover about 150,000 households equivalent to 4% of households with speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s in the city of Klagenfurt and in two districts in Vienna. One is an upscale neighborhood with scattered housing, the other is a residential neighborhood with high building density. Furthermore, a trial using fiber-to-the-curb infrastructure will be launched in Villach, a medium sized town in the south of Austria later this year.
Topography, building density and the blend of residential and business customer of the areas chosen are representative for urban Austria and will provide valuable learning on the deployment cost of fiber infrastructure and insights into customer acceptance of products and pricing of premium services such as ultra fast internet access with initial speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s, innovative internet based and HD TV services including Video on Demand.
The Telekom Austria Group also announced its intention to start rolling out VDSL2 in selected rural areas in Austria towards end of 2009 using existing fiber back bone infrastructure and the migration to a NGN voice platform to significantly increase available bandwidth at very low incremental investments.
Past glass fiber investments in the backbone infrastructure allow to deliver bandwidths of up to 30 Mbit/s to about 750,000 households by 2012 equivalent to a coverage of about 15% of households around selected central offices. This initiative will enable Telekom Austria to offer high bandwidth service to more than 300,000 households already at the end of 2009.
The higher bandwidth will strengthen the market position of Telekom Austria within the targeted areas, increase the addressable market of aonTV and allow the Fixed Net segment to effectively differentiate from mobile broadband offerings of other operators.
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