TeliaSonera Passes 1 Million TV Subs

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Jul 25, 2011 1:21 PM

Swedish-owned telecommunications and pay TV firm TeliaSonera updated 110,000 TV subscriptions during the second entertain of 2011 to attain 1.1 million, whilst expanding its skeleton for three times fool around services opposite the Baltic region.

Of that 1.1 million subscribers, 488,000 are in Sweden, but TeliaSonera skeleton to accomplish a more even expansion opposite the entire Baltic region, inclusive the outstanding Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway and Finland, together with other beside countries of northern and eastern Europe. The outline is to link up 2.3 million homes right away to twine by the finish of 2014, and as segment of the same deployment expand VDSL2 services to a serve 800,000 homes in Sweden by 2013. VDSL2 requires deployment of essential element closer to the homes to edit the limit length of the last copper loops to typically 1Km or less. There is no definite stretch limit, but over longer loops in surplus of 1.6Km, VDSL2 performs no improved than the ADSL2 broadband services that many operators have today. At 1Km, VDSL routinely delivers 50Mb/s, taking flight to 100Mb/s over 0.5Km. Because VDSL2 requires erect out of fiber, it is frequently deployed at the same time as FTTH. Fiber tends to be lengthened all the way to the home in areas of aloft riches and race density, whilst interlude at lane cabinets in other areas served by VDSL2.