DSL Prime reports that Belgium telecom operator, Belgacom has signed up nearly one million video/VDSL customers, roughly 25% of homes. “Microsoft and Swisscom are getting the TelcoTV headlines in Europe, but Belgacom is far ahead with actual deployment, soon going wide across the country,” reports DSL Prime.
A little hello from Belgium just to let you know that if there were 1 million Video/VDSL subscribers in Belgium I would certainly have noticed.
As I happen to be a subscriber of DSL Prime myself I went back and reread Dave Burstein’s last email and found the misleading headline: “Belgacom VDSL, video, 25% of homes”. Aha!
But then: “Belgacom just signed their millionth sub, a quarter of all homes in the country.”
Good old ADSL that is, not VDSL! Belgacom is also running a field trial on VDSL and video but on a small scale (200-500 homes I think), hence the confusion.
Pfff, you scared me, for a second I thought I had become a laggard on the technology adoption curve 🙂