To entice more customers to subscribe to its FibreX network, Vodafone guarantees three-day installation backed with inexpensive gigabit prices.
According to Vodafone Consumer director, Matt Williams, the telecom company will install the network for customers who already have an existing cable.
He stated, "It takes a lot longer than three days to install a UFB fibre connection and there is a waiting list. When a customer signs with us, we'll have engineers turn up with a modem and they'll make the connection in three working days. If we don't we'll give the customer a $100 credit."
Scoop reported that FibreX replaces the name of Vodafone HFC (hybrid-fibre coaxial) network that facilitates portions of Christchurch, the Kapiti Coast, and Wellington. A bare unlimited data gigabit plan will cost a customer $110 per month on FibreX. Subscribers can save $30 on Vodafone's equivalent plan for a UFB fiber connection. For those customers with a bonafide Vodafone account, a subscriber will shell out $100. All FibreX plans have a one-year contract.
Although Vodafone's HFC network provided fast significant speed in the past, much of the network's capacity was shared. This, in turn, results in the slowing down at peak times when the network becomes overcrowded. The company's technology director, Tony Baird mentions that Vodafone collaborated with Huawei for the network's upgrade using the GPON2 while the UFB network utilizes GPON1.
Vodafone initially announced its gigabit upgrade plan a year ago and anticipated to begin offering the faster speeds from this year's meridian. Its technology upgrade transports FibreX to the most recent version of HFC technology known as Docsis 3.1 and it is where FibreX is based which is popular in the United States as well as Australian cities, as reported by Stuff.
Vodafone said that in case the company will not be able to upgrade current FibreX customers to its gigabit service in three days, they will give customers a credit of $100. Sounds like a great deal, isn't it?
