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Annual direct investment in fiber to the
home (FTTH) networks will reach $4.7
billion by 2017 and total investment in
FTTH over the next five years will be $18
billion, according to a market analysis
from RVA LLC.
The report, “North American fiber to
the home and advanced broadband
review and forecast to 2017”, predicts
that annual revenues derived by FTTH
providers from ultra-high bandwidth
applications and services beyond
voice, video and Internet will reach $4
billion by 2017, or $9 billion cumulatively
over the next five years.
Fiber to the home networks, which
are capable of providing broadband
speeds of one gigabit and beyond,
are now available to more than a fifth
of North American households. The
build-out has been led by Verizon’s
aggressive deployment of its all-fiber
FiOS service in the US, while nearly
1,000 smaller operators, mostly local
telephone companies and munici-
palities, are now providing services to
their customers over all-fiber networks.
“This report backs upwhat we’ve been
seeing and hearing from the market in
recent months – that Americans and
Canadians want their broadband
providers to take it to the next level
and deliver the gigabit speeds to
homes and businesses that will soon be
necessary for economic advancement,
overall competitiveness and rising living
standards,” said Heather Burnett Gold,
president of the FTTHCouncil Americas.
North American
FTTH investment
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