WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government wants to set minimum home Internet speeds to make the United States the world's largest market of high-speed Internet users, the Federal Communications Commission's chairman said on Tuesday. Read more...

FEBRUARY 10, 2010 By Stephen Hardy -- Google has announced plans to build and test open access fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in “a small number” of trial locations across the United States. The company has issued an RFI seeking communities interested in participating in the trials.  Read more....

A white paper from Zhone outlining revenue and cost model impratives for a sustainable service provider strategy to building FTTx.

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A survey by US magazine Consumer Reports has found that the nation's fibre-optic service providers scored highest overall in terms of customer satisfaction for Internet, TV and phone services. Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse received top scores for Internet and TV services with respondents, and were found to be among the better phone providers. The survey was conducted with 69,000 readers of the magazine. Read more...

In East Region, Company's FiOS Internet and High Speed Internet Services Outscored All Other Competitors in Overall Satisfaction; Ranked Highest in Performance and Reliability, Cost of Service, Offerings and Promotions, and Billing

Award for Broadband Products Follows Top Ranking for FiOS TV for Second Year in a Row
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By Troy Wolverton, Mercury News Columnist -- There's a revolution happening on the Internet — though broadband providers have not seemed to notice.  Thanks to new gadgets, programs and Web services, consumers are sending, sharing and swapping more data than ever over the global network. Yet many are stuck with Internet connections that give them upload speeds much slower than download speeds. Read more...

The survey, commissioned by the Council and conducted by the consulting and marketing firm RVA LLC, was based on a random sampling of more than 1,200 households, equally divided among FTTH users and subscribers to other broadband services. It found that 67 percent of FTTH users gave the highest rating – “very satisfied” – to their Internet connection speeds, compared to 58 percent of cable modem users and 46 percent of DSL users. Read more...

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FTTH Services Lead the Way in Internet Speed, Reliability and TV Quality

June 29, 2009 – Washington, DC – Customers of telecom companies that run fiber optic lines all the way to the subscriber premises are more likely to give high ratings to their television and Internet services than those who access their services via cable modem or DSL, according to survey results released today by the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council. Read more...

FTTH networks are now available to more than 15 percent of homes, and more than 5.3 million households across North America are now connected directly into high-speed, high-bandwidth fiber networks.  Thousands more connections being made every day.  As FTTH service providers continue their deployments and add customers, we are now getting a glimpse of what the new era of next-generation broadband will mean for the consumers who use them. Read more...

Technology Webinar - January 28, 2009: Video and Consumer Electronics - a Roadmap? with Jim Farmer, Chief Network Architect for Enablence Technologies, FTTx Div. Read more...