Fiber To The Premises By Country - Europe - Iceland

Iceland

In Iceland, FTTH is being deployed by Gagnaveita Reykjavikur (GR), a subsidiary of Orkuveita Reykjavíkur (Reykjavik Power Company). By March 2006, they had begun connecting the towns of Seltjarnarnes, Akranes and parts of the Greater Reykjavík Area. At that time they expected to have 50% of Reykjavik connected by 2008 and all of the Greater Reykjavík Area, Seltjarnes, Akranes, Mosfellsbær, Þorlákshöfn and Hveragerði connected by 2012. However, deployment in other areas was pending due to agreements with city officials. GR only owned the FTTH network; ISP services were provided by HIVE, Skýrr, and Vortex. As of July 2006, VoIP service were available from HIVE. By March 2007, Vodafone Iceland was providing ISP and VoIP services, and had introduced video via its Digital Iceland broadcasting system. However, Skýrr had stopped providing ISP services at this point. The FTTH connections are 100 Mbit/s, but as of March 2007 the ISP services only offered speeds of 6, 8, 10, 20, and 30 Mbit/s.

In March 2006, the monthly cost of FTTH was 1.990 ISK (approx 26 US dollars), not including any services. This was somewhat more expensive than having a phone line in the house which cost 1.340 ISK (approx 18 US dollars) at that time. By June 2009, the monthly cost of FTTH had risen to 2.390 ISK (approx 19 US dollars at the time), not including any services. By comparison, having a phone line in the house had dropped to 1.147 ISK (approx $9 US dollars) by that time.

Other smaller FTTH providers are Míla which operates in recently developed areas in Greater Reykjavík Area, Gagnveita Skagafjarðar operates in Sauðárkrókur and Tengir in Akureyri and its vicinity.