How to get network cables installed in home
HOME owners keen to find out when OpenNet crews will be coming to wire up their properties can visit its website at rollout.opennet.com.sg Those who sign up during the firm's initial rollout will have installation fees waived up to 15m from the front door of their homes.
This means that it will be free except for those living in larger apartments or landed properties.
Home owners who turn down this offer will have to pay between $220 and $450 if they change their minds and want the fibre-optic network cables installed at a later date.
The installation 'will take no more than four hours on average... As far as possible, OpenNet's contractors will try to use existing points of entry, existing conduits and surface trunking to minimise any drilling or hacking', the company said.
An OpenNet spokesman added that the company, which had met with some resistance from house-proud Singaporeans, will 'continue to work with the Infocomm Development Authority on increasing the awareness of the potential benefits of the services to home owners and what they can expect during installations'.
Some home owners had rejected its offer to wire up their homes for free because surface trunking, which leaves the wires on the surface of the walls, is used.
The fibre-optic cables will eventually terminate in a device the size of two mobile phones.
Networking cables can be connected directly to this box for Internet access, doing away with the bulkier modems used by existing Internet service providers like SingTel and StarHub currently.
While cabling your home is now merely an investment for the future, broadband users need not wait too long to be able to access the new service.
With many retail players keen on offering this service, analysts expect that cheaper and faster broadband is just a year away.
More than half of Singapore's homes and offices should have access to faster and cheaper broadband by the end of the year. -- ST PHOTO: TERENCE TAN
MORE than half of Singapore's homes and offices should have access to faster and cheaper broadband by the end of the year.
OpenNet, which has been tasked with laying the cables for a national ultra-fast broadband network, announced yesterday that it has wired up 30 per cent of the island - and is on track to having 60 per cent hooked up by this year.
The firm had been awarded a government tender in September 2008 to lay the cables for the $4 billion fibre-optic network that will allow broadband speeds between 10 and 100 times faster than what is currently available.
Work on the network, which will put Singapore on a par with other wired-up markets like Hong Kong, began last September.
OpenNet's chief executive officer, Mrs Tan Kah Rhu, also announced that OpenNet will start selling broadband bandwidth on a wholesale basis from today.
So far, one company, Nucleus Connect, has already bought in.
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