Qtel begins implementing ‘fibre to home’
Qtel has begun the implementation of its ‘Fibre to the Home’ (FTTH) progarmme, which aims to connect homes in Qatar with high-speed fibre over the next three years, the company has announced.
The FTTH programme was announced in March 2010, and with the rollout starting this week, Qtel is on track to hit its target, the company said. As part of the programme, Qtel has selected Huawei as its technology partner.
The programme is the largest infrastructure project of its kind ever carried out by Qtel.
The company said a team of specialists from Huawei would arrive in Qatar to begin the survey process. The team would work with experts from Qtel to execute the programme within the timeline, and with maximum benefit for the people of Qatar.
As part of the FTTH programme, existing copper connections will be replaced by high-speed fibre connections, and homes and businesses will get direct connections.
The process, which will continue throughout the year and into 2012, will be undertaken in co-operation with all relevant authorities and government bodies, to minimize inconvenience.
Dr Nasser Marafih, CEO, Qtel, said: “This is an important strategic project for Qatar and for Qtel, which will make a major contribution to the knowledge-based economy, and open a new era of opportunity for people and businesses. Homes and companies will have access to some of the fastest Broadband Internet in the region, and the increased capacity of the fibre solution will enable the introduction of a huge range of new services.”
Congratulations to QTEL for taking an important step towards fibre optic...best of luck to all staff of Qtel.
Source: http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=385140...
I will be happy with a simple 100/100 connection.. :) Nothing more lol...
Just imagine the amount of data I can upload and make my ratio on certain private sites... No need for Seedboxes and servers anymore...
Wait.. I just opened my eyes from a dream... :(
I didn't said it was.Assuming that it has power to afford all this.After all communication is the most important in our everyday life.My country,pakistan is not a developed country yet it still provides a 4mb connections for upto 20riyal/mo..
In other developed countries,people only get charged like 20$/month for a 20mb CONNECTION.So it would be awesome if qtel decreased the prices.
Qatar is not a developed state.
They also need to improve the international internet bandwidth as well.
we will be happy if they introduce more high speed internet as same as like Saudi.
yes with the same ADSL prices as qtel is gonna replace current copper cables with fiber optics so there will be no chance of low speed and also they have to provide high speed with low costs...
Does this also means less price for the internet speed packages?
qtel will be providing high internet speed by 2014 and also with Mozaic TV+ qtel will also enable HD edge to edge clear TV...woow that will be amazing.
kodus to qtel! keep it up!
They need to try getting Mosaic TV to all Qatar first!
kool keep it up Qtel