T-Mobile Czech Republic, part of the Deutsche Telekom group, has revealed that between January and September 2020 it added roughly 40,000 homes to its 10GPON-enabled fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network footprint, increasing the total to around 170,000. Further, the operator says that in the final quarter of the year it aims to pass a further 30,000 households – offering state-of-the-art fibre with speeds of up to 1Gbps – to boost the total to close to 200,000. It says the rollout has continued despite the challenges faced during the first wave of coronavirus, with T-Mobile’s optical network construction programme manager, Marek Svoboda, noting: ‘Even so, during the emergency in the spring, we laid two million metres of optical cables and connected 11,000 households.’
Currently, T-Mobile CR’s FTTH network is available in Benesov, Breclav, Uherske Hradiste, Zlin, Prachatice, Humpolec, Louny, Tanvald, Prague’s Luky district and the Belsky Les part of Ostrava. By the end of the year, residents in Svitavy, Nejdek, Rokycany, Liberec and other towns and villages will also be hooked up, it said. Using 10GPON technology means the network is future-proofed to deliver speeds of up to 10Gbps in future.