With PPC FiberGrid’s Fiber to the Home network having already reached 140,000 homes in 12 municipalities of Attica, in just 10 months, the company awarded through a competitive process to 12 contractors the construction of a Fiber to the Home network in additional areas in Attica and in Thessaloniki, Patras, Heraklion, Volos, Kalamata, Larissa, Ioannina, Corinth, Trikala, Kozani, Veria, and Megalopolis. The areas have been selected based on, among other things, population coverage and lack of FTTH infrastructure.
PPC FiberGrid’s goal is for the FTTH network to reach 500,000 households and businesses at the end of 2024 and 1.7 million in 2025 in the above areas. Overall, PPC Group’s goal is to provide fiber-to-the-home coverage to 3 million households and businesses across the country within the next five years. Investments for the period 2024-2026 will amount to approximately €680 million.
It is worth noting that the architecture of the network constructed by PPC FiberGrid corresponds to one optical fiber per subscriber up to the point of concentration (cabin), ensuring the future expandability of the network and giving the providers the possibility of dark fiber service.
Commercial availability to wholesale within 2024
PPC FiberGrid intends to wholesale the new network in two ways. The first concerns the provision of a wholesale bitstream service with speeds that can reach up to 10 Gbps. The second is with the availability of a dark fiber service, with which each provider can offer their end customer whatever services they want.
The vice president of PPC FiberGrid and Deputy CEO of digital and innovative services of PPC group, Mr. Alexandros Paterakis, said: “Our vision is a digital society, accessible and open to all, which will contribute and accelerate social and economic progress.
We want to offer telecommunications providers a state-of-the-art and stable network of passive and active fiber optic access to homes, companies and public organizations. Through PPC FiberGrid’s network, we enable industry providers to provide high-quality services to their end customers and contribute to the country’s digital transition, for the Gigabit Society.
Besides, the gigabit society is also a prerequisite for the green energy transition: smart energy homes and businesses need high connection speeds and near-real-time response in order for electrical appliances, chargers, photovoltaics, the storage units and the management units of the smart energy home”.
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