FTTH take up in US running at 32 percent

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 15 September 2010 14:20

Business IT - Networking

According to the FTTH Council fibre to the home networks now pass almost 20 million homes, and seven million of these have signed up for services delivered over FTTH.

The FTTH Council's announcement comes as Australia's NBN Co strives to increase take up in its first release sites - where households can get the fibre connection at no cost.

At its annual conference in Las Vegas the FTTH Council issued a statement saying: "End-to-end fibre optic networks capable of delivering enormous levels of bandwidth are now available to 20 million North American homes'¦[and] 6.45 million households on the continent now receive Internet, television and/or voice services over fibre to the home networks, an increase of about 650,000 from six months ago.

It added: "The precise number of 'homes passed' by FTTH networks when the survey data was compiled is 19,966,000, representing about 17.4 percent of North American households, and up from about 18,250,000 homes passed measured six months ago.

"The survey of broadband providers throughout North America, which is conducted by RVA Market Research, found that FTTH networks are continuing to expand beyond Verizon's $US23 billion deployment of its FiOS fibre to the home network, with hundreds of smaller telecoms across the continent now moving forward with FTTH upgrades."