Highlights from CETIN International

In Czechia, operators tend to adopt and implement new technologies relatively early in the investment cycle, which repeats roughly every eight years. Customers are also used to this, and there are usually enough compatible end devices on the market. Czechs simply have a relationship with modern and fast technologies. That's a good thing. We were one of the first to implement not only 5G technologies, but also extra capacity in higher frequency bands, known as C-BAND. This is nothing unusual; the Czech Republic has always been at the forefront of previous generations of telecommunications innovations.

The independent network infrastructure operator CETIN Bulgaria has finished the installation of photovoltaic systems on its data centers (DC) in Sofia and Plovdiv. A system with an expected annual yield of 178.5MWh has been added to the roof of Serdika DC, and a 47.617MWh system now helps power Trakia DC in Plovdiv.

High-speed connectivity in rural areas is a necessary pre­condition for attracting the working-age population to live in smaller towns and villages. CETIN Czechia is a champion in rural cove­rage, with its fixed Next Generation Access (NGA) network available for more than 63% of all Czech rural households (Digital Econo­my and Society Index DESI, 2021). Most of the rural coverage is built using a fiber-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) network, which enables the users to achieve speeds of up to 250Mbps. However, since 2019, CETIN’s main focus has been the deployment of state-of-the-art fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, including in rural areas.