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North American FTTH investment

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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.

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