Hong Kong Telco, PCCW, which features one of the most advanced IPTV offerings within its Quad play, has upped its top of the range broadband offering to fiber, terminating in gigabit ethernet, and bundling into a package featuring the new Netvigator 1000M broadband, bundled with HSDPA and its Hong Kong wide Wi-Fi footprint for broadband anywhere.
PCCW was beaten to the punch in last mile gigabit per second domestic services by Hong Kong Broadband Network, which introduced them well over a year ago, but reckons that its Hong Kong fiber coverage, which extend to over two thirds of the country, gives it an advantage.
The superfast service will cost around HK$2,188 ($281) a month, and it will also offer a cut down version called 100M for HK$588 ($75) a month, offering 100 Mbps in the last mile. The existing low end services in Hong Kong go for around $24 a month for a 3 to 6 Mbps line
Both packages includes PCCW free access to HSPDA, and use of all 3,000 PCCW Wi-Fi hotspots as well as an upgrade to high-definition TV service and comes with 24 hour support.
“We aim not only to extend transmission speed of as fast as 1000Mbps to as many households as possible, but also anticipate and meet heavy bandwidth needs of new applications, said Tom Chan, managing director, Consumer Group at PCCW. “We will be providing a 1250Mbps service on our networks soon and expect to roll out even faster broadband services later in 2008.’
Hong Kong has just 3.8 million landlines, with 2.6 million of them supplied by PCCW, with 1.1 million of them having Netvigator branded DSL broadband.