At an event for press and shareholders, TIM revealed its next investment. Through a new company called Fiber TIM, the Italian operator will offer fixed broadband services in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo from July next year.
Initially, the operator will sell two speeds: 50 Mbps and 100 Mbps. All this speed will arrive in customers' homes through a fiber optic network that will reach the pole or building. Since then, come together to network covers pre-existing residence through a VDSL converter. The discerning will opt for higher speeds the fiber directly into their homes.
Luca Luciani, CEO of TIM and Rogerio Takayanagi, CEO of TIM Fiber
The fiber optic network Fiber TIM covers practically the entire city of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as some nearby towns. This is because the purchase of AES Atimus by TIM in July of that year, which added to the grid operator of a 5500 km optical fiber in the two capitals.
The focus of TIM is to win customers in the utilities operators (Hi and Telefonica) which, due to the distance between home and central, are prevented from owning more than bandwidth of 2 Mbps. The investment for each customer is approximately $ 500. This value encompasses the entire installation process, from labor to the boxes that must be affixed to the pole.
The ambition is large: the operator plans to own 20% of the broadband market in four years of operation in the capital. It does this by working with two market segments: "I pay, but I have no technical availability" and "but I can not get." Along with fixed broadband, the operator will also create a network of hotspots, a la Vex.
However, prices and plans were not disclosed. Rogerio Takayanagi, TIM Fiber CEO, said the deal will be similar to the competition, except in the form of collection: it is not necessary to have a landline to get broadband. The operator did not bet on convergence in the two services, because it has a prepaid plan with rates cheaper than a landline.
In the presentation, there was a model of the connected home. A computer connected to the service was available for testing, and get 45 Mbps download and 30 Mbps upload. Takayanagi I could talk to, and he assured me that the upload should stay in between 10 and 15 Mbps.
HSPA +
TIM also used the event to advertise their projects on HSPA +. The carrier will operate the technology in three carriers and three sectors for each site, allowing a total of up to 378 Mbps theoretical for each antenna. This link will be provided through the TIM Fiber networks and Intelig important to remove the bottleneck previously known: just for the sake of comparison, each antenna had only 8 Mbps.
Unlike the Live, no specific plans for Internet access via this technology. Customers can browse the HSPA + network without the need to exchange their data packets.
Takayanagi was keen to highlight that the implementation of infrastructure and TIM Intelig Fiber is essential for the expansion of mobile network: the sites are getting the upgrades will be able to LTE, with speeds up to 300 Mbps to each customer. "Now, TIM has that capability," he said.
Initially, the operator will sell two speeds: 50 Mbps and 100 Mbps. All this speed will arrive in customers' homes through a fiber optic network that will reach the pole or building. Since then, come together to network covers pre-existing residence through a VDSL converter. The discerning will opt for higher speeds the fiber directly into their homes.
Luca Luciani, CEO of TIM and Rogerio Takayanagi, CEO of TIM Fiber
The fiber optic network Fiber TIM covers practically the entire city of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as some nearby towns. This is because the purchase of AES Atimus by TIM in July of that year, which added to the grid operator of a 5500 km optical fiber in the two capitals.
The focus of TIM is to win customers in the utilities operators (Hi and Telefonica) which, due to the distance between home and central, are prevented from owning more than bandwidth of 2 Mbps. The investment for each customer is approximately $ 500. This value encompasses the entire installation process, from labor to the boxes that must be affixed to the pole.
The ambition is large: the operator plans to own 20% of the broadband market in four years of operation in the capital. It does this by working with two market segments: "I pay, but I have no technical availability" and "but I can not get." Along with fixed broadband, the operator will also create a network of hotspots, a la Vex.
However, prices and plans were not disclosed. Rogerio Takayanagi, TIM Fiber CEO, said the deal will be similar to the competition, except in the form of collection: it is not necessary to have a landline to get broadband. The operator did not bet on convergence in the two services, because it has a prepaid plan with rates cheaper than a landline.
In the presentation, there was a model of the connected home. A computer connected to the service was available for testing, and get 45 Mbps download and 30 Mbps upload. Takayanagi I could talk to, and he assured me that the upload should stay in between 10 and 15 Mbps.
HSPA +
TIM also used the event to advertise their projects on HSPA +. The carrier will operate the technology in three carriers and three sectors for each site, allowing a total of up to 378 Mbps theoretical for each antenna. This link will be provided through the TIM Fiber networks and Intelig important to remove the bottleneck previously known: just for the sake of comparison, each antenna had only 8 Mbps.
Unlike the Live, no specific plans for Internet access via this technology. Customers can browse the HSPA + network without the need to exchange their data packets.
Takayanagi was keen to highlight that the implementation of infrastructure and TIM Intelig Fiber is essential for the expansion of mobile network: the sites are getting the upgrades will be able to LTE, with speeds up to 300 Mbps to each customer. "Now, TIM has that capability," he said.
