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Vodafone and Orange to Deploy Shared Landline Fibre Network
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Vodafone and Orange have jointly announced plans to co-invest in fibre to the home deployment in Spain, with the intention to reach 6 million households and workplaces across 50 major cities by September 2017.
Under the terms of the agreement, Vodafone and Orange will each deploy street-level fibre ("horizontal" infrastructure) in complementary geographies. The fibre will be owned independently but will share the same technical specifications to ensure compatibility as a single network, and each partner will have guaranteed access to the whole infrastructure.
The companies will also each deploy their own in-building fibre ("vertical" infrastructure), guaranteeing access to each other, and will together request access to any third party vertical infrastructure.
The combined capital expenditure required to reach 6 million households and workplaces is expected to reach EUR1 billion. The agreement is also open to third parties willing to co-invest.
The agreement will also require effective access to Telefónica's ducts to facilitate rapid mass deployment of horizontal infrastructure.
Vodafone Chief Executive for the Southern Europe region, Paolo Bertoluzzo, said: "This agreement demonstrates Vodafone's commitment to provide high-speed unified communications services to our customers coupled with our willingness to invest when there are positive returns."
Tags: [vodafone] [orange] [Spain]
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