FTTH Networks Now Available to 15 Percent of Homes

Houston - September 29, 2009 - The number of North American fiber to the home (FTTH) subscribers now stands at more than 5.3 million, as deployers of end-to-end fiber networks continue to add more than 1.5 million customers a year, according to a study released today by the Fiber-to-the-Home Council. Read more...

The report covers FTTH Market Size Definition and Methodologies, FTTH Market Size—Homes-Passed, Marketed, and Connected, FTTH Growth versus Historic Copper and Coax Rates, FTTH Deployments by Type of Provider and Overall Penetration of FTTH.  It also has stats on FTTH take rates and current growth of the FTTH market.

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April 7, 2009 - Washington, DC - The number of North American fiber to the home (FTTH) subscribers continues to grow at an annual pace of approximately 1.5 million and now stands at more than 4.4 million, according to a study released today by the Fiber-to-the-Home Council. Read more...

September 23, 2008 - Nashville, TN - The upgrading of North America's last mile networks with end-to-end fiber is continuing at a robust pace, with fiber to the home (FTTH) arriving at more than 1.6 million households over the past year, bringing the total number of FTTH subscribers to 3.76 million, according to a study released today by the Fiber-to-the-Home Council. Read more...

New study shows rate of growth heading up, “take rate” again on the rise

October 3, 2007 - Orlando, FL – The number of North American households with direct connections into high-speed fiber networks has surpassed the two million mark, according to a study released today by the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). The survey also shows that the rate of growth in fiber to the home connections continues to increase as more Americans look to next-generation networks for faster internet and more robust video services. Read more...

New study shows smaller telephone companies helping to lead the way to next-generation broadband connectivity

April 2, 2007 - Washington, DC – The number of U.S. homes receiving video, internet and voice services over direct fiber optic connections has doubled over the past year, continuing a recent trend of robust growth in deployment of this high bandwidth technology, according to a new study sponsored by the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA).
According to the study, released during the Digital City Expo in Reston, Virginia, 1.34 million homes are now connected to the internet via end-to-end fiber, with FTTH now passing 7.9 million homes. This compares to 671,000 connections and 4.1 million homes passed as of March 2006. Read more...