26
2013
Annual Report
Euskaltel bases its focus and vocation as an integral
telecommunications operator with future evolution
guarantees on the deployment of a high capacity and
capillarity owned network, which allows the provision of
high value and differentiated services.
This network, consisting of cutting-edge technological
equipment and infrastructure is based on the intensive use
of fibre optics, covers all the municipalities that Euskaltel
directly serves, apart from inter-connecting the different
population centres and with the main hubs.
Different technologies are based on it that enable us to
offer all the services demanded by our customers related
with: broadband, Fixed Line telephones, cable television and
mobile telephones. Apart from the own infrastructures that
it uses to reach their end customers, Euskaltel has numerous
connection points with other international and national
operators that guarantee that they can communicate with any
place in the world as if they were calling in their own town.
At the end of 2013, the Euskaltel network had around
4,718 km of fibre optic cables laid, which corresponds to
346,700 km of fibre optics. The potential beneficiaries of
that infrastructure are approximately 834,509 households
and 156,774 companies and commercial establishments of
the Basque Country.
This deployment will continue over the coming years,
given that we have detected the existence of a demand for
telecommunication services, apart from having perceived
how the deployment of an alternative access network
has enabled the quality of life to be improved of areas
that until then had no real alternative or even a service in
reasonable conditions. In 2013, work therefore began on
Our Network
planning a future access service to Broadband Internet
through satellite as an alternative for difficult access zones.
Euskaltel has all the network core elements necessary to
be able to offer services and develop own products related
with mobile telephones (voice and data mobility) and is
the largest virtual mobile operator in Spain by number of
customers.
The geographical mobile coverage of access within Spain
The Euskaltel network has 346,700 kilometres of fibre optics
deployed throughout the Basque Country.
