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PPC is stepping up to the challenge in the telecommunications market. According to sources from newmoney, it plans to launch a consumer product for fiber optic before the end of the year at highly competitive prices, aiming to aggressively enter the market and gain market share.

Landline telecommunications have been in continuous decline in recent years in Greece with the advent of cellphones, according to the data of the National Telecommunications and Posts Commission (EETT).

The number of mobile subscribers in Türkiye reached a total of 92.2 million last year, Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said, citing data from the Information and Communication Technologies Authority's (BTK) market report.

This corresponded to a penetration rate of 108 percent and 84.9 million of those subscribers were 4.5G users, according to the minister.

Türkiye has ranked second in Europe in fiber-optic cable infrastructure, with 18 million households subscribing to fiber, while France takes the lead, according to a report by the FTTH Council Europe.

Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou said on Wednesday that 2024 will be a year in which procedures related to the services for citizens and businesses in their transactions with the state will be further simplified.

After five years and two governments, the contract for the development of optical fiber to the home (FTTH) in semi-urban and rural areas of the country has finally been signed.

Greeks are showing little interest in the fiber optic internet connections being offered under the SuperFast BroadBand (SFBB) program.

The telecoms regulator is increasing charges for conventional ADSL internet connections and reducing those that rely on optical fibers (VDSL and FTTx) in an effort to persuade web users in Greece to move toward the latter.

The average speed of internet connections in Greece has increased since last year but is still well below what is advertised, data from the Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) have shown.

A new study from research group M-Laband Cable.co.uk has examined ISPs and 3,303 packages from 195 countries across the world to produce a comparison of fixed line broadband prices, which reveals that the average monthly cost of internet access is cheapest in the Ukraine ( USD), while the UK ranks only 61st (.58), according to ispreview.co.uk