The revenue of PT Portugal remain in decline for months and were several enterprise customers, including major accounts such as deposit de Depósitos and Montepio, who left the company and gave her to the US telecommunications services.
It is a new technology solution developed by PT innovation that the company now owned by Altice will bet their chips to recover customers and increase earnings in the corporate segment.
A market that NOS ( joint venture Sonae and Isabel dos Santos) considers strategic and which is gradually gaining ground, but in which PT refusal losing the lead. The Chairman of PT Portugal, Paulo Neves announced this Thursday that the company wants to expand the coverage of its fiber optic network, the 2.3 million existing homes, for a total of 5.3 million homes and businesses in . 2020 (in 2017, the goal is to reach 3.5 million homes)
What will it cost and how it will be funded this ambitious plan is something that got to know, despite the insistence of the media ” The investment amount is not relevant, it will do whatever it takes, “said the manager at the end of the presentation.
The truth is that the strategy is” central axis “the solution of PT Innovation founded on technology NG-PON2, which will allow the evolution of the current network (G-PON). “The strategic investment [PT Portugal] in the corporate segment next year” has here its great asset, confirmed to the PUBLIC the director responsible of the technological area, Alexandre Fonseca.
With this technology, which “brings dedicated fiber benefits” (one line, for a client) as the most bandwidth and the possibility of similar and higher speeds either the download and upload of data, a larger number of customers (among 128 256 customers in the same fiber cable), “reduce significantly the costs of access.”
In practice this means more and better services and at a lower price, assured the director of PT. This “democratization” in access to higher speeds to small and medium-sized enterprises will be enhanced by the expansion of the fiber network. “We will reach the micro, small and medium enterprises across the country that until now could not have this kind of services,” said Alexandre Fonseca.
The new offering, which will be commercially launched in the first quarter 2016 , “has as its primary target the business segment”, as generally their characteristics exceed the residential market needs. The current G-PON network offers 2.5 Gbps in Download and 1.25 Gbps on the uploaded . With the evolution of the network to NG-PON2 it is possible to provide access to 40Gbps in both directions, and early 2016 it is anticipated that can be extended to 80 Gbps. PT ensures that the evolution of the network does not require the installation of new cables and that it is “future-proof” as it will monitor global developments of fiber networks in the coming years. For now, the new technology will ensure the best business conditions in the use of video applications and services “in the cloud” and access to data centers, for example.
This solution developed by the Portuguese engineers and equipment developed in Portuguese factories will be exported to the various companies of the group Altice and sold to other operators, said Paulo Neves. “PT is here from bricks and mortar” and will continue to contribute to investment and employment in the country, assured the manager. As an example, he stressed that the company’s efforts to make the “fibragem” 50 thousand houses per month over the next five years will involve two thousand people.
The revenue of PT Portugal fell 9.4% in the third quarter to Euro 579 million, down precisely by business segment, which fell by 9%. “We’re not losing large enterprise customers and the segment will stabilize in the coming quarters,” said the CEO of Altice, Dexter Goei in conference call with analysts following the release of accounts, last week.
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