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Hong Kong gets gigabit fibre for $26
08 July 2010
Hong Kong Broadband speeds up FTTH services
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Hong Kong
HKBB
City Telecom
Alcatel-Lucent
FTTH
fibre to the home
Hong Kong Broadband Network, a wholly-owned subsidiary of City Telecom, has launched fibre-to-the-home services running at symmetrical one gigabit a second costing US $26 a month.
China’s special administrative region is already among the areas with the highest residential broadband penetration in the world, at 81.4%.
The speed boost — using Alcatel-Lucent kit — is because of the demand for “super high-definition and 3D interactive multimedia applications”, said Ivan Tam, HKBN’s CTO. “Alcatel-Lucent’s GPON solution enables us to offer affordable broadband services on a mass-market scale,” he added.
HKBN is the fastest growing broadband service provider in Hong Kong and is first to provide symmetric 100 megabit and now one gigabit broadband services to residential broadband users.
The vendor has been prototyping equipment that will run at 10 gigabits a second. GTB