Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Broadband - Spain set for FTTH surge - Telecom News Analysis

May 22, 2009

Almost half of Spain's 14 million households could have fiber-to-the-home connections by 2023, according to a market growth projection made by the country's telecom regulator, Comisión del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones (CMT).

The regulator, as part of a feasibility study on next-generation networks, gave what it called a "conservative" estimate that between 43 percent and 46 percent of Spanish households in 2023 -- around 8.5 million to 8.6 million households by that time -- would have fiber-access broadband, most likely from a GPON-based access network...