A new pilot"Fiber to the Home (FTTH)"network was developed by OTE Group in the municipality of Athens. Offering fast Internet speeds up to 1 Gbps, ΟΤΕ Group paves the way for Gigabit Society.

As part of this pilot program, the copper cables were fully replaced withfiber opticup to the homes of the consumers, at selected location in the centre of Athens. Thus, approximately 50 households and enterprises enjoy today COSMOTE FTTH connection with symmetricalspeed up to1 Gbps(1 Gbps download & 1 Gbps upload), with no extra charge.

The Chief Officer of Technology and Operations of ΟΤΕ Group, Mr. Stefanos Theocharopoulos, pointed out that: "We are the fiber optics company of Greece. We want COSMOTE customers to enjoy first all the advantages of the new infrastructures. The goal of the pilot program is to test the FTTH architecture inlive fixed network,in order to define the appropriate technical specifications, to "listen" to our customers, individuals or firms, and to efficiently map their needs. We pave the way in order to be ready to fulfill our customers' future needs for FTTH services".

Fiber to the Home constitutes a strategic mission and an integral part of OTE Group's technological plans. For this reason, the Group has intensified its construction plan bringing fiber optics to neighborhoods, to offer very fast fixed internet with VDSL and VDSL Vectoring.

OTE Groupconstitutes the largest investor in new technologies and infrastructure in Greece, as the last six years its investments exceeded €2 billion. Moreover, the Group has already announced investments up to €1.5 billion for the next four years (2017-2020), in order to offer consumers faster internet speeds and wider population coverage in fixed and mobile telephony.

Suggested tags:fiber optic, ote group, ote network, VDSL, vectoring, internet

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