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Gigared to cover the entire city of Santo Tomé with FTTH in 2018

The cable operator already has 31 blocks of buried fiber in the downtown area of the Santa Fe province. Marcelo Gonsebatt, Technical Manager of the company, explained to Convergencialatina  that it deals with some 800 past homes and more than 200 triple play customers, with connections of 25 Mbps. In 2018 they hope to extend the GPON network to the rest of the city and also extend their fiber coverage in Posadas (Misiones), Corrientes (Corrientes), Resistencia (Chaco), Santa Fe Capital (Santa Fe ), Paraná and Crespo (Entre Ríos).

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