FTTH
HOMEWARD BOUND
What needs to be done in the next 12 months to move toward the goal of copper switch-off?
KEELY PORTWAY
Broadband fibre optic cable T 4
here is no denying that global awareness of the benefits of fibre is growing, as markets throughout the world rush to
deploy fibre networks – with some geting close to copper switch-off. Te latest figures from industry research firm Point Topic put the global quarterly growth of fixed broadband subscribers for the second quarter of 2019 at 1.7 per cent. Meanwhile, the number of global fixed broadband connections was 1.08bn. Te report, titled World Fixed Broadband
Statistics – Q2 2019 shows that between Q2 2018 and Q2 2019 the number of copper
lines globally fell by 6.6 per cent. Fibre to the home (FTTH) connections, on the other hand, increased by 18.6 per cent and FTTx/VDSL by 7.1 per cent. Tis means, said Point Topic, the trend of subscribers dropping copper in favour of fibre continues, albeit at a slower rate than in the previous quarter. Wireless – mostly fixed wireless access – and satellite also experienced a healthy growth as the technologies that are being increasingly used to cover broadband ‘white spots’. Is this ‘slower rate’ of fibre take-up over copper a sign of things to come over the next
12 months? Not in Europe, according to FTTH Council Europe president Kees de Waard. ‘Digital transformation in Europe is progressing at a fast pace, and various communication technologies and new emerging services now increasingly require access to very high capacity networks in order to efficiently deliver products and a high-quality experience to end-users,’ he said. ‘As the number of connected devices in the
economy and in everyday life is relentlessly growing, European countries are looking at ways to implement a nationwide expansion
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