Vodafone Portugal and NOS Fibre Network Share Agreement
Vodafone Group announces that Vodafone Portugal and NOS have signed
an agreement to deploy and share a fibre-to-the-home network which will
be marketable to around 2.6 million homes and businesses in Portugal.
The two companies will provide reciprocal access to each other’s
networks on commercially agreed terms.
The key terms of the agreement are:
- The total number of homes and businesses to be shared by the two
companies will be around 2.6 million covering both existing and
greenfield areas.
- Vodafone Portugal will gain access to 1.3 million homes and
businesses in new areas, consisting of new fibre builds in NOS’s current
cable footprint, NOS’s existing fibre reach in areas greenfield to
Vodafone, and building homes in new areas. This will increase its total
coverage from 2.7 million to around 4.0 million, representing 80% of the
households in the country.
- Each party will deploy, but not share, the link between the central
office and the fibre backbone, active equipment and CPEs. Customer
connections and activations will be independent of each other.
- Marketing of services across the joint network will commence from
the beginning of calendar 2018. Both Vodafone Portugal and NOS will
maintain complete autonomy and flexibility in respect of their
respective retail offers.
The agreement is consistent with Vodafone Group’s fixed
infrastructure strategy, which aims for an optimal mix of build,
strategic partnerships, wholesale and buy approaches. As a result of
this strategy, Vodafone can already market high-speed services to 98
million homes across Europe, and this agreement extends this to over 100
million.
Source: Vodafone Group media announcement