The mission of all the FTTH Councils in North America, Europe and Asia-Pac includes the communication to stakeholders in our respective regions of the extent of usage of FTTH throughout the world and forecasting the growth of FTTH.

This task has been made difficult by the proliferation of terms and acronyms that, while no doubt useful to individual organisations for their specific purposes, lack precise definitions.

This is of particular concern when different research organisations choose their own definitions when conducting research. As a consequence it becomes impossible to compare the research on FTTH between different regions, or between different studies of the same region.

This document defines the terms used by all the FTTH Council’s (North-America, Europe, Asia-Pacific). To promote consistency when commissioning or commenting on research the Councils’ members will confine themselves to those terms defined in this document.

This document specifically aims to reduce the terms used to a subset that are well defined, adequate and useful.

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