T-Mobile Austria will upgrade the fibre network of UPC, acquired in 2018 from Liberty Global. From 7 May, all UPC households in Vienna will be able to use speeds of 1 Gbps. Vienna will in this way be one of the first cities in Europe to provide the speeds. Gradually, more regions in Austria will be upgraded to the new technology.
UPC, a brand of T-Mobile Austria, currently provides maximum speeds of 300 Mbps to 1 million households and businesses, thanks to the Hybrid Fibre-Coax (HFC). To benefit from the higher speed, customers will need a new router. On 6 May, T-Mobile will introduce a new cable product, which can be activated from 7 May.
Austria-wide, the operator plans to invest around EUR 1 billion in both mobile and fixed networks, in the period from 2018 to 2021.
The network of UPC in Vienna counts several dozens of thousands of kilometres cable. Around 1,000 kilometre of fibre-optics cable, consisting of lines of at least 100 fibres, build a data backbone for 7,200 kilometres of coaxial trunk lines, which supply around 20,000 kilometre subscriber lines in buildings. About 1,500 fibre nodes are the switching points for 65,000 amplifiers, with which 1.5 million connection sockets in Vienna will be supplied with gigabit internet from 7 May.
Another operator - A1 - has also announced gigabit internet in Vienna, via FTTB.
