The number of North American households connected directly into optical fiber networks grew by 13 percent over the past year, indicating that telecommunications companies of all sizes are continuing to upgrade to next-generation fiber to the home technologies, according to the Fiber to the Home Council.
The Council 900,000 households across the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean were upgraded to FTTH service since April 2011, as the total number of North American homes subscribing to all-fiber connections topped eight million. FTTH is now being offered to 19.3 million homes on the continent, the Council says.
In the United States and Canada there are about 161 million fixed network access lines, so FTTH represents less than 12 percent of potential lines in service, and less than five percent of subscribers.
Monday, April 9, 2012
North American FTTH: Good and Bad News
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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If the FCC is allowed to gut the HCL funds unchecked rural America's fiber deployment will be even slower. The wireless companies are the biggest benefactors of the latest FCC rules processes and their aim is to stiffle FTTH growth.
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