FTTH, Fiber-To-The-Home, 100MB at $48.50 (in Hong Kong)
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Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited (“HKBN”) today announced a revolution in Hong Kong’s broadband market, being the FIRST Internet service provider in Hong Kong to launch Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) residential broadband services, “FiberHome100”.Significantly, HKBN has turned traditionally cost prohibitive FTTH technology into affordable mass-deployed residential service, at US$48.5 (HK$378) service fee for its 100Mbps access service.
After the breakthrough launch of bb1000 in 2004, HKBN is again delivering the future today. Effective immediately, HKBN will offer residential FTTH broadband services ranging from 100Mbps to 1Gbps, namely, FiberHome100, FiberHome200 and FiberHome1000, at US$48.5 (HK$378), US$88.2 (HK$688) and US$215.4 (HK$1,680) respectively. Living the vision of technological advancement, HKBN will phase out our entry bb10 service (symmetric 10Mbps service), ceasing to accept new subscriptions for this service. As such, our entry service will now be our bb25 (25Mbps symmetric service).
In Hong Kong, as early as 2002, HKBN already envisioned the future need for bandwidth, and invested more than HK$2 billion in network infrastructure, set to offer symmetrical broadband service up to 1Gbps. Enabled by pioneering technologies, FTTH is the art of our advanced network platform with minimal extra investment and upgrade work. With the technology leap from Fiber to the Building to FTTH, end-users can enjoy the full benefits of Future Technology today. Not only does the use of optical fiber allow easy bandwidth upgrade beyond 1Gbps, but the reliability of the broadband service will also be enhanced considering the fact that optical fiber device are passive devices that do not require electricity.
In order to promote the benefits of FTTH technology, 100 users will be selected from 100 different housing estates in Hong Kong and they are entitled to enjoy the 100Mbps FTTH broadband service at special discounted price of US$38 (HK$298). Their opinions on the service will be actively solicited and used enhance our service before our launch to all our household units in 2008. HKBN is delighted to announce yet another technological and market breakthrough. Chairman of HKBN, Ricky Wong, said, “High speed broadband service (FTTH) is a foreseeable inevitability that we had prepared for 3 years ago. Holding onto to the belief that a service provider should deliver the best and most up-to-dated services available to the public, we are pleased to be able to launch the massively-deployed FTTH version of 100Mbps, 200Mbps and 1000Mbps in Hong Kong, which also contribute to further enhance Hong
Kong’s role as Asia’s telecommunications hub.”
About City Telecom/Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited
Established in 1992, City Telecom (H.K.) Limited (SEHK : 1137, NASDAQ : CTEL) provides integrated telecommunications services in Hong Kong. City Telecom’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited (HKBN), is in the process of expanding its Metro Ethernet from 1.3mn to 2.0mn homes pass. HKBN has achieved an aggregate Voice, Broadband (symmetric 25Mbps up to 1Gbps), IP-TV and Corporate data services base in excess of 640,000 subscriptions. Additional information on City Telecom can be found at www.ctigroup.com.hk. For enquiries, please contact: Corporate Communications Investors Relations
Jessie CHENG Peggy CHAN
Tel: (852) 3145 4118 Tel: (852) 3145 6068
Fax: (852) 2199 8372 Fax: (852) 2199 8655
Email: chengcm@ctihk.com Email: ir@ctihk.com
