Vodafone and MASMOVIL Group reach an agreement to share fiber connections in Spain
06 Septiembre 2018 - 5:30AM
Vodafone and MASMOVIL Group reach an agreement to share fiber
connections in Spain
Madrid, September 6th 2018.- Vodafone and
MASMOVIL Group have reached an agreement to share up to 1.9 million
Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) connections. The agreement will be
implemented progressively over the next four years, increasing the
optimization and efficiency of the use of fibre networks in
Spain.
For MASMOVIL, the 942,000 Vodafone´s households
covered by this agreement will be commercially available from
December 2018. Including these connections, MASMOVIL will reach 5.4
million households, having thus exceeded its objective to reach 5.1
million with its own fiber network this year. At the end of June
2018, MASMOVIL’s fiber services reached 13 million households.
In turn, Vodafone will be able to progressively
add up to a million homes to its owned or shared network footprint.
At the end of June 2018, Vodafone was offering fiber services in
Spain to 20.9 million households, of which 10.3 million were owned
or shared deployments.
"I hope this agreement with Vodafone is the
beginning of a fruitful relationship for both of us. Widening our
owned fiber footprint allows us to offer excellent services to more
customers" said Meinrad Spenger, CEO of MASMOVIL Group.
António Coimbra, CEO of Vodafone Spain, states
that "this agreement helps to optimize and rationalize the use of
fiber networks in Spain and will allow us to offer our customers
ultrafast broadband services in a more efficient way".
About MASMOVIL Group
MASMOVIL Group is the fourth largest converging
telecommunications operator in Spain that provides fixed, mobile
and broadband Internet services for residential, business and
Wholesale, through its main brands: Yoigo, Pepephone, MÁSMÓVIL and
Llamaya.
The group relies on a fiber/ADSL network for
broadband and 3G and 4G network for mobile telephony. At present,
it has more than 13 million fiber households and reaches 18 million
homes with ADSL. The companies’ 4G mobile network covers 98,5% of
the Spanish population. The Group had more than 6,5 million
customers in Spain by the end of june.
MASMOVIL received the award for the best fixed
broadband operator by Grupo ADSL Zone, and the award for best fiber
operator by the website, Grupo Informático, in 2017. Additionally,
it is the operator with the fastest fiber network in Spain
according to a study by the company, nPerf, and the operator with
the fastest 3G+4G aggregated mobile network in Spain, according to
a study by the company, Tutela.
For more information:
Fernando Castro +34.656.160.378 fernando.castro@masmovil.com