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Deployer Spotlight
International
deployment activity.
United
Kingdom Netherlands
Germany
Switzerland
Slovakia
Slovenia
France Serbia
Greece
United Arab
Emirates
Singapore
Indonesia
Australia
City of Richland, WA .. . . . . . . . www.ci.richland.wa.us
City of Seattle, WA.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.seattle.gov
City of Windom, MN.......... www.windom-mn.com
Connexion
Technologies.......... www.connexiontechnologies.net
States with fresh
deployment activity.
North American Telcos
Ballard Telephone .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.brtc.net
Broadweave Networks................. www.broadweave.com
Enhanced Telecommunications Corporation.www.etczone.com
Nex-Tech (Rural Telephone).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.nex-tech.com
Peoples Rural Telephone..................... www.prtcnet.org
SureWest Communications................ www.surewest.com
Verizon Communications .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.verizon.com
Wiggins Telephone Association.. . . . . . . . . . www.wigginstel.com
Other North American Deployers
City of Northfield, MN. ............... www.ci.northfield.mn.us
City of Palo Alto, CA............................. www.pafd.org
International Deployers
Arcor. .......................................www.arcor.de
Biznet.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.biznetnetworks.com
City of Manchester, UK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.manchester.gov.uk
City of St. Gallen, Switzerland .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.stadt.sg.ch
City of Karditsa, Greece........................................
Etisalat .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.etisalat.ae
Ewz. ............................................ www.ewz.ch
Government of Australia. ............... www.australia.gov.au
Iliad .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://iliad.fr/en
Infocomm Development
Authority of Singapore . ...................www.ida.gov.sg
IWB. ............................................. www.iwb.ch
NetAachen.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.netaachen.de
OptiComm .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.opticomm.com
Reggefiber .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.reggefiber.nl
Slovak Telekom.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.slovaktelekom.sk/En
Swisscom...................................... en.swisscom.ch
Telekom Slovenia.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.telekom.si/en
Telstra.....................................www.telstra.com.au
And in Zurich, where municipal utility ewz deployed an open
access FTTH network in 2008, Swisscom and alternative provider
Sunrise have both launched triple-play services over the
network. Both companies say these are trial offerings and they
have yet to determine the terms of commercial offerings.
Slovenia Now an FTTH Leader
In its 2008 annual report, Telekom Slovenia says that as of
year-end 2008 there were about 45,000 FTTH subscribers in
the country, 15,000 of whom were Telekom Slovenia customers.
Despite the service being new, FTTH already accounts for more
than 10 percent of broadband connections in Slovenia and FTTH
connections are “rising sharply.” As a percentage of households,
FTTH penetration in Slovenia is the third highest in Europe and
about double that of the United States. Telekom Slovenia plans to
continue building out its FTTH network in 2009.
In the Greek city of Karditsa, a pilot FTTH project in
the central city is delivering Internet connectivity at speeds of
1 Gbps to users’ homes. The network was constructed by the
Greek telecom equipment supplier Optronics Technologies.
Because this was the first FTTH project in Greece and the
company wanted to gain experience implementing a variety of
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