Europe has 4.5 Million "Fiber to Home" Customers

Europe now has reached 3.2 million Fiber-to-the-Home) or Fiber-to-the-Building subscribers (nearly 4.5 million if Russia is included) with around 18 million home being passed (26 million including Russia).

That works out to penetration of about 17 percent (percentage of users who buy, compared to the number who can buy). For those of you who think "fiber sells itself," those statistics are sobering. Less than one in five potential FTTH customers actually buys the service, when it is available.

Eastern Europe makes up a large number of these connections with Lithuania still leading, and Slovenia and Slovakia now making up part of the top five countries.

thinkbroadband :: European fibre penetration reaches 4.5 million subscribers