Tuesday, 10 October 2006

Fiber-to-the-Home Deployments Growing Dramatically

Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), have revealed results of a new study showing FTTH deployments pass over six million North American homes, an increase of more than two million homes, over 50 percent since last March.

The number of North American homes and businesses directly connected via end-to-end fiber now exceeds one million and the growth rate in new subscribers is accelerating – an increase of 50 percent in the last six months.

The new figures, released during the FTTH Council’s annual FTTH Conference & Expo, show the most rapid growth of FTTH deployment to date; well over 300,000 additional homes being passed every month. Major FTTH providers, which include municipalities and utilities, real estate developers and operators as well as traditional and non-traditional service providers, are now at full speed in the deployments with more FTTH providers coming on line.

“The growth of fiber to the home continues to be dramatic,” said Michael Render of RVA Market Research.