His machines have gotten ahead OTE which continues to implement the project of upgrading the telecommunications infrastructure that had lagged behind in recent years, developing fiber optics in more parts of the country, while continuing to expand availability in areas that already have access to FTTH.
Μto date, more than 480.000 households and businesses all over Greece have access to fiber optics all the way home (FTTH) through COSMOTE Fiber. The OTE which is installed on top of 77% of the total FTTH lines of the country aims by the end of 2021 the FTTH lines to reach the 550.000.
At the same time, the group's goals are to succeed and 60% population coverage of the fifth generation mobile network (5G) until the end of this year.
According to his sources OTE on Business Daily, today the FTTH extends to even more households and businesses in Municipality of Athens, but also to Ilioupoli, Kaisariani, Kifissia, Metamorfosi, Neo Iraklio, Papago-Cholargo, Chalandri, as well as in Thessaloniki and Chania, Crete.
In June, during the regular general meeting of its shareholders OTE, The head of the group M. Tsamaz had stressed that within the next decade it should "To have eliminated what is left of the monopoly of the past", stating that the group has made investments in the last five years that reached five billion euros and has committed to additional investments of two billion euros by 2024.
Where is the fiber optic already to the house
At Attica, the infrastructure Fiber To The Home is already available in homes and businesses of specific areas in Agia Paraskevi, Agios Artemios, Agios Dimitrios, Ampelokipi, Anavyssos, Anixi, Ano Liosia, Vyrona, Galatsi, Glyka Nera, Dafni, Dionysos, Drapetsona, Zografou, Ekali, Ekali, Ekali , Kaisariani, Kamatero, Keratea, Keratsini, Kifissia, Koropi, Lavrio, Markopoulo, Maroussi, Melissia, Nea Erithraia, Nea Ionia, Nea Makri, Nea Smyrni, Nea Philadelphia, Nea Chalkidona, Nea Paligo, Neo Psychiko, Neo Psychiko, Neo Psychiko , Patissia, Piraeus, St. Petersburg, Pikermi, Rafina, Ymitto, Saronida, Spata, Chaidari, Chalandri and Psychiko.- At Central Macedonia, Giannitsa, Edessa, Katerini, Kilkis, Naoussa and Serres have access to guaranteed speeds of 100 & 200Mbps, as well as specific areas of Thessaloniki and its municipalities: Agios Georgios, Sindos, Kalamaria, Epanomi, Oreokastro, Efkarpia , Panorama and Pylea, as well as in Diavata. Additionally, they can connect to Fiber To The Home at Eastern Macedonia & Thrace: Drama, Kavala, Komotini and Orestiada and in West Macedonia: Grevena, Kastoria, Ptolemaida and Florina. In western Greece and Epirus, Arta, Igoumenitsa, Preveza, Agrinio and Messolonghi have access to Fiber To The Home infrastructure.
- At Central Greece, households and businesses in Karpenisi, Lamia, Livadia, Thebes and Chalkida, have the ability to connect to FTTH. In Thessaly, Trikala, Karditsa and Larissa have access to FTTH, while in the Peloponnese Aigio, Argos, Corinth, Messina, Nafplio, Pyrgos Ilias, Sparta and Tripoli. In Island part of Greece, the Fiber To The Home infrastructure is available in Crete in the municipalities of Chania, Rethymno, Agios Nikolaos and Ierapetra, as well as in Lesvos, Rhodes (in the homonymous municipality and in Ialyssos), Samos and Chios.
OTE also participates in one of the largest telecommunications PPP projects in Europe and the largest in Greece, the Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFBB) on a budget 700 million, which, however, has entered a cycle of delays following the appeal made by PPC against the tender. The UFBB is expected to generate more than 750.000 speed connections at least 100 Mbps, with the ability to upgrade to 1Gbps.
Fiber optic investments bring the end of copper
The development of fiber optic networks also brings specific deadlines from Telecommunications Committee to OTE to deactivate the obsolete copper networks. In particular, in each area that (mainly) o OTE and other telecommunications providers complete the installation of a fiber optic network, a specific period of time will be given during which the organization will be obliged to deactivate the copper network that connects the cabins to the homes of consumers. This is one of the forecasts that will be included in the updated regulatory framework of the fixed communications market, the elaboration of which is currently being completed by the National Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT).
The president EETT Konstantinos Masselos argued that the new regulatory framework sets out the plan "according to which we can proceed to the 'closure' of copper in the areas where a fiber optic network will be developed in the near future - the so-called copper switch-off". At the ministry Digital Governance and to EETT point out that this plan can also be supported by the Recovery Fund. As Mr. Masselos said
We need understanding and synchronization in order, in the next period, to be able to set specific dates for the closure of the copper network in our country, in any area where a fiber optic network becomes available, without the transition from the copper network to the fiber optic network at the cost of end subscribers.
In an interview he gave to Business Daily the Minister of Digital Government, Kyriakos Pierakakis, had stressed on the subject how
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