BoR (11) 06b BEREC report NGA Country Cases - IRG

Austria
1 Market developments
1.1 Incumbent
1.1.1 Actual roll-out
BoR (11) 06b
� Illustrate the current status of NGA roll-out in your country. Consider the following aspects
- name of the operator and applied technology (e.g. FTTH GPON, FTTH P2P, FTTB,
VDSL, Cable);
Regarding NGA roll-out in Austria, the incumbent operator A1 Telekom Austria (new name
following a merger of the incumbent‟s fixed arm Telekom Austria TA AG and mobile arm
mobilkom Austria AG) announced plans to deploy VDSL2 technology in MDF locations
allowing to provide broadband with a data rate of up to 30 MBit/s for 750.000 people (i.e.
15% of households) until 2012. Furthermore A1 Telekom Austria has announced four test
areas for deploying enhanced NGA services. In the southern Austrian province of Carinthia
the cities of Villach and (just recently) Klagenfurt, FTTC scenarios already have been
deployed with services actively offered, while in two districts of Vienna FTTH / FTTB
scenarios are currently about to be deployed. In Lower Austria, the small village of
Siegenfeld also has seen an FTTC roll-out recently. In general, A1 Telekom Austria aims
for FTTH GPON deployment in Vienna, only in the case of in-house cabling restrictions
FTTB will be used instead.
- current coverage of the network and number of NGA lines (passed/connected). Please
provide figures as of June 30 2010;
See above.
- available retail services (e.g. product name, type of service (e.g. triple play), bandwidth,
price level, price structure).
Regarding the retail services currently available in Villach, Klagenfurt and Siegenfeld the
so-called Giga Speed products allow data rates of up to 30 MBit/s. In Vienna, no product
details have been announced so far, but data rates are expected to be up to 100 MBit/s for
FTTH.
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