Ziggo begins offering gigabit internet in another eleven cities – IT Pro – News

VodafoneZiggo is starting to offer internet with a download speed of 1Gbit / s in another eleven cities. This happened before in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Thanks to the step, 650,000 extra households can take out a subscription with a higher speed.

This concerns the cities of Groningen, Leeuwarden, Heerenveen, Lelystad, Almere, Apeldoorn, Zaanstad, Haarlem, Alkmaar, Purmerend and Weesp. To make the speeds possible, technicians have recently installed 936,000 new connectors and replaced 87,000 connection cables in more than 50,000 street cabinets. according to the provider. Last month, there were 560,000 new connectors at house connections and 53,000 connection cables in 29,214 street cabinets. For the last part of the network, the coax cable from the neighborhood to the living room, Ziggo applies docsis 3.1 for the 1Gbit / s offer.

The higher speeds will be available in cities from Tuesday. Ziggo added Rotterdam to the gigabit offering last month, while Amsterdam went live earlier this month. With the eleven new cities, 650,000 households will be added that can get the higher speed.

In areas where the upgrade is not yet live, the maximum speed is in the Max plan with a speed of 500Mbit / s, with an upload of 40Mbit / s. With the Giga subscription, that is 1Gbit / s down and 50Mbit / s up. The subscription is ten euros per month more expensive than the Max subscription and costs 98.50 euros per month with interactive TV. Without TV that is 76.50 euros per month.

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