Fiber to the premises by country

This article lists the deployment of fiber to the premises by country.

Main article: Fiber to the premises

Africa

Kenya

Zuku FIBRE broadband residential and SOHO packages 1Mbps, 4Mbit/s and 8Mbit/s currently available in Nairobi’s Kileleshwa, Kilimani and Lavington suburbs. Also available as Triple-Play bundles.

South Africa

i3 have announced plans to construct a FTTH network in South Africa covering 2.5 million premises by 2016.

Asia

Further information: FTTH Council Asia Pacific

Brunei

Telekom Brunei Berhad, the incumbent telecommunications operator in Brunei commenced construction of their FTTH network in 2010 to replace their copper infrastructure, signing contracts with Huawei to construct the network. It will offer initial speeds up to 150Mbps.

China

See also: Internet in China and Telecommunications in China

In APOC 2003 (Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications) held in Wuhan, 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.

Hong Kong

As of April 2006, HKBN was offering its customers Internet access 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.

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. BSNL has launched an FTTH service in Jaipur in late 2010.

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.

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, 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.

Japan

FTTP, often called FTTH in Japan, 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.^{[citation needed]}

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.

Malaysia

Telekom Malaysia 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.

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.

Globe Telecom deployed its GPON pilot projects in 2009 for class A areas. These are in Bonifacio Global City, Forbes park, Bel-Air and Urdaneta Village.

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 Telecom 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.

Europe

Further information: FTTH Council Europe

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 Croatia 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.

Cyprus

In 2007, the island largest telecoms provider, the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTA), signed a contract with Ericsson for a rollout of FTTH.

Czech Republic

In Prague, 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.

Denmark

As of 2006, FTTH was being installed in Denmark 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.

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 SA 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 arrondissements 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.

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 Athens, 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.

Hungary

In Hungary, 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.

Iceland

In Iceland, 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.

Italy

In Italy, 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).

Kosovo

Kosovo, FTTN (N=Neighborhood) has been deployed by Telecom Kosovo since 2000 in selected areas of Prishtine, Pec, Prizren, Mitrovica, 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 LT 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.

Macedonia

In Macedonia, 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.

Moldova, Republic of

In Moldova 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.

Netherlands

In The Netherlands in the city Eindhoven and a nearby village called Nuenen, 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.

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 Portugal, 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 360/36 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.

Romania

In Romania, FTTH was first deployed in Timişoara by RDS. Currently, it is available in every major city. The name of the service is FiberLink.

Russia

ER-Telecom 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:

• 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 Slovakia, 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.

Slovenia

In Slovenia, 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.

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 Alcatel equipment and is PON based with 2.5G downstream and 1.25G upstream capacity per 32 homes.^{[citation needed]} 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 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.

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 Odessa 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.

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 [3].

H2O Networks, part of the i3 Group, is rolling out Fibrecity, offering Residential FTTH in Bournemouth, Northampton and Dundee.

Middle East

Israel

Israel's state-owned electricity company is deploying a FTTP network across the country. Target maximum speeds are between 100Mbps and 1Gbps. The network will be funded 49% by the Government electric company, and 51% by private sector partners. Construction will begin in 2012, with a target of 10% coverage by 2013 and 66% by 2019.

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 Alcatel. 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 Bassil 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. [4]

Qatar

Qatar’s government has established Qatar National Broadband Network Company (Q.NBN) with a mandate to accelerate the rollout of a nationwide, open, and accessible high-speed (100Mbit/s) broadband Fibre to the Home (FTTH) network infrastructure. Q.NBN will implement the rollout of a nationwide broadband Fiber network to houses and businesses across Qatar, achieving coverage targets in excess of 95% by 2015 as it is planned by Supreme Council of Information & Communication Technology (ictQatar). Q.NBN Board of Directors has appointed Mohammed Al Mannai as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company on June 1, 2011.

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Telecom Co (STC) offers 100Mbit/s FTTH connections in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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 Marina, 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.

North America

Canada

Novus 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.

United States

Main article: Fiber to the premises in the United States

Mexico

Axtel offers FTTH under the name Axtel Xtremo, providing service in Guadalajara, Monterrey and Mexico City At speeds up to 100 Mbit/s.

TotalPlay offers FTTH in Mexico City and Toluca At speeds up to 100 Mbit/s.

South America

Argentina

In Argentina, telecommunications firm IPlan [5] 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 [6].

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, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte and Salvador. 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.

Oceania

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 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.

New Zealand

Telecom New Zealand, 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.

See also

• Fiber to the x