Tianjin Unicom's FTTH network covers 58 communities

February 24, 2010, Tianjin Unicom has just announced that their FTTH network has covered 58 communities in the city which is 200KM east of Beijing.

Tianjin Unicom began to build FTTH access network last year. Up to the end of last year, they have coverd 300K subscribers. Tianjin Unicom plans to cover all citizens （10Mbps）and enterprises (100Mbps) in the city in 3 to 5 years through their FTTH network.

Now Tianjin Unicom has began to accept registration for the FTTH service in the 58 communities. They also said they will not increse the tariff for the new FTTH broadband service.

Tianjin is not the only city who aims at FTTH network in mainland China. Before them, Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shanxi province all have similar FTTH city projects. But Tianjin Unicom really wants to become a leader in this wave of FTTH construction in mainland China.

In order to build high quality FTTH networks, according to the website of Tianjin Unicom, they have published a "FTTH engineering standard", also they developed some new products like double side ODF, fiber splitter in the building jointly with the equipment suppliers. Now they can finish FTTH installation in just 4 days after they accept request from the customer.