Bratislava- Orange Slovensko, a subsidiary of France Telecom, announced yesterday its plans to deploy the most dense national network of optical household connections, available on the wider area of the country thus confirming the aim of its shareholder France Telecom Group to deploy a fixed telecommunication network based on FTTH (Fiber To The Home) technology in Slovakia. Thanks to this technology Orange will gain a few years start ahead its competitor already this year and will be ready to offer its customers with new multimedia services for life and entertainment. Orange is about to invest approximately 1 bil. SKK (32 million EUR) and cover almost 200,000 household by the end of the year.

After the success of the first phase of the optical fiber offer, Orange Slovensko will become the first telecommunication operator in Slovakia with nation-wide operations, who will invest into deployment of alternative fixed last mile thus being able to compete to the other providers of fixed data and voice services to households and companies.