Competition in telecoms shifts to wireless networks

Competition successful telecommunications is gradually shifting to a caller field, arsenic providers look for ways to capable the gaps near by the improvement of fibre optic infrastructure. The situation of expanding these networks to inaccessible parts of the country, such arsenic islands and mountainous areas, has pushed companies to turn to alternate solutions successful the past two years. The extremity is to supply precocious speeds and reliable connectivity, without the request for extended and time-consuming projects, fundamentally opening a caller battlefront astir wireless technologies and nett entree models.

The entry, astir three years ago, of Starlink, Elon Musk’s outer internet, besides played a decisive relation successful this mobilization of providers. The work has recovered a foothold successful the Greek market, attracting a important fig of users, chiefly successful areas lacking a fibre optic network. Although there are nary authoritative figures, it is estimated Starlink has implicit 60,000 subscribers successful Greece.

OTE was the archetypal to react, proceeding successful aboriginal 2025 with the commercialized launch, via the 5G network, of the Fixed Wireless Access service. This λύση is chiefly aimed astatine areas where a fibre optic web has not been developed, covering shortcomings and offering a caller option.

“With astir 55,000 connections by end-2025 and having present exceeded 65,000, FWA technology is evolving into an indispensable pillar of the group’s fixed services portfolio,” OTE president and CEO Kostas Nebis precocious said, noting that it “enhances competitiveness, particularly successful areas where fibre optic deployment remains limited,” while besides having weak copper infrastructure. Demand for such technologies increases sharply successful the summer, arsenic it responds to the accrued needs for accelerated nett from tourist accommodations and vacation homes, particularly successful land destinations.

Nova is pursuing the aforesaid pattern: A fewer weeks agone it shifted to FWA with the Nova 5G Home Internet vehicle, which is available astatine ultra-high speeds of 500 Mbps, differentiating itself from the competition, which offers up to 300 Mbps. The infrastructure, though presently limited, is being developed astatine a nationalist level and operates complementary to the optical fibre network.

Finally, Vodafone is besides considering its introduction into the Fixed Wireless Access market, with the purpose of being there earlier the summer.