OREANDA-NEWS. May 03, 2011. Starting from the 16th of May, TEO LT, AB, the largest provider of integrated telecommunication, IT and TV services in Lithuania, will increase the speed of the ZEBRA FTTH Internet up to 300 Mbps, and users will have the possibility to download the information available on Lithuanian and foreign servers at the same speed.

TEO will increase the Internet speed for residential customers without any additional fees.

From the middle of May, the speed of the "Premium FTTH" plan, intended for customers with high demands on speed, will be tripled up to 300 Mbps (Megabits per second), while the speed of the most popular plan "Optimal FTTH" - up to 100 Mbps. The speed of "Basic FTTH" will be doubled up to 40 Mbps (Megabits per second), while the speed of the plan "Para" ("Twenty-Four Hours"), which is intended for users who do not use the Internet a lot, will be up to 10 Mbps both in Lithuania and abroad.

Users of so far the fastest, 200 Mbps, ZEBRA Internet plan "Mega" will be offered the opportunity to use the plan "Premium FTTH".

FTTH Internet services provided by TEO, the company which has developed the most extensive telecommunications network in Lithuania, are available for use to about half of the country's population - 570 thousand households. Next-generation services are being developed at the fastest rate in the country's biggest cities - they are available for use to approximately 86 percent residents of Vilnius, 95 per cent residents of Klaipлda, 75 percent residents of Kaunas, more than half of Panevлюys and Рiauliai residents.

It is planned that this year TEO investments in the FTTH network, which is being expanded in fifty cities of Lithuania, will amount to more than LTL 70 million. Total investments in the next-generation FTTH network, which has been expanded for four years, will by the end of 2011 exceed LTL 325 million.

The FTTH network is being actively developed also in business centres and office buildings - by the end of 2012 leading-edge technologies will become available to businesses and organizations, which have their offices in more than one thousand office buildings and business centres.

According to the data released by the FTTH Council Europe, Lithuania is the country which deploys fiber-optic Internet technologies at the fastest rate in Europe. At the end of 2010, fiber-optic Internet access was used by approximately 23 per cent residents of Lithuania - almost twice as much as in Sweden, Norway and Slovenia, which, according to the published rating, take positions from 2 to 4.