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Telecommunications 5.5 million new fibre connected homes in six months
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 01 October 2009 | |
  
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The councils say that, at the end of June 2009, 21 economies met this threshold, with the top 10 have more than five percent of their households connected with FTTH/B. The Asia-Pacific region still leads the global ranking with South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan taking the first four places, followed by Sweden and Norway. The US added 800,000 FTTH/B subscribers in the first six months of 2009, 14 percent of the global total. The top three economies in terms of the total number of new subscribers were China, Japan and the United States. Joe Savage, President of the FTTH Council North America, said: "Here in the world's second largest FTTH market, we are seeing fibre to the home really changing the way people live, learn and work - with a growing number of subscribers using their services to work from home and to access innovative applications for remote education and telemedicine." Karel Helsen, president of the FTTH Council Europe. "With Slovakia as the only new entrant in the global ranking we have now 14 European countries in this important benchmark of FTTH/B development. Nevertheless, big countries like France, UK and Germany are still missing and two million subscribers in Europe is still a small number compared to six million in North America and more than 30 million in Asia-Pacific.
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