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Altice to Accelerate Fiber Investments in France and Portugal

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France-based European telecoms group, Altice plans to accelerate the pace of its fiber build-out in both France and Portugal.

In France, the Altice Group has set itself new targets in terms of fiber deployment and now aims to pass 12 million homes by the end of 2017, 18 million by the end of 2020 and 22 million homes by the end of 2022. As of end of Q3 2015, its largest subsidiary in France, Numericable-SFR passed 7.4 million fiber homes.

In Portugal, the Group announced that it aims to build-out fiber to an additional 3 million households and businesses over the next five years, at a rate of 600,000 homes per year. This implies a new target of 5.3 million fiber homes passed by the end of 2020. The company's PT has passed 2.3 million fiber homes as of end of Q3 2015

With these accelerated network investments, the Altice Group is confident that it will maintain its market leading positions in fiber in both France and Portugal.

At the same time, Altice also stated its plans to speed up the launch of its new S-VOD platform (ZIVE) and a new fiber set-top box for the French market.

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