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TeliaSonera picks Ericsson for VDSL2 project
01 March 2010
Ericsson is to supply VDSL2 equipment to TeliaSonera so it can boost its copper network in Sweden, Denmark and Norway
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TeliaSonera has chosen Ericsson to boost one million access lines in Sweden, Denmark and Norway using VDSL2 technology in place of slower ADSL.
The company — which is the incumbent in Sweden but also has operations in other Scandinavian countries — will start deployment of the new technology in Sweden.
Mikael Bäckström, Ericsson’s head of operations in Nordic and Baltic countries, said: “Operators’ decisions to move from ADSL to VDSL2 is in line with consumers’ need to get more bandwidth at home.” Already 90% of Swedish homes have internet access but the government is aiming at home broadband speeds of up to 100 megabits a second.
Ove Alm, senior vice president of TeliaSonera Networks, said: “Enhancing our fixed broadband network will meet the booming demand for bandwidth.”
Ericsson said that by using VDSL2, operators do not have to take fibre right to the home, but can use existing copper in the last mile. GTB