Premium 14 July 2016, 9:29am

Hungary Magyar Telekom develops fixed-line broadband network in Budapest (x)

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In the frame of the nationwide fixed-line network modernization programme, Magyar Telekom, Hungary’s leading telecommunications group, is set to implement substantial developments in numerous districts of Budapest, the company announced earlier this week.

Consequent to the development started last year, MTel’s high-speed, broadband internet service becomes and/or became available in Angyalföld (13th district) to 68,000 households and to 8,700 households in in Csepel (21st district).
In the first half of 2016, in Kőbánya (10th district) 1,400 households were affected by the development.
In June, network modernization also started in the 12th district of Budapest. Construction works in this district will take place in several stages. The first few hundred households can already enjoy services based on fast internet from September 2016, with the new network gradually becoming available in a larger area. MTel plans to make its broadband network available in 10,000 households by the end of this year and to nearly 17,000 households by the summer of 2017.
Developments started last year in Zugló (14th district) and in Újbuda (11th district) will continue. By the end of the summer, 22,000 households in Zugló, and altogether more than 10,000 in Újbuda can enjoy the new Telekom service quality. In addition, significant network capability improvement is also expected in the second half of 2016 in certain parts of Óbuda (3rd district) and Józsefváros (8th district).
In the summer, developments will be completed in the settlements of Pilisborosjenő, Biatorbágy and Törökbálint - as well as in their agglomeration.

“Resulting from the developments, customers can enjoy higher transmission speeds and a faster internet. This offers simpler communication, fast and secure picture and video download and sharing," MTel said in a press release on Monday. Consequent to the modernization subscribers are offered a wider TV channel assortment, as well as video-on-demand (VOD) available on multiple screens. New services will also become available. These include numerous existing features of interactive TV becoming available also in these settlements, such as the pause and rewind functions of live broadcasting, programmable recording of programs by touching a single button, digital electronic program guide, as well as versatile online applications available on the TV screen. Last year Telekom accelerated the development of its high-speed broadband fixed network, making at least 30 Mbps transmission speed available in further 464,000 households, all across the country. This year the company plans to cover another half a million households with internal funding, of which by the end of June more than 400,000 were covered. Therefore, the high speed broadband internet is currently available in altogether more than 2.5 million households on the Magyar Telekom network.