FTTH: Double Squeeze of Incumbents - Forced to Partner?

High-Speed Cable and FTTB/H Networks Deployed by Alt-nets and Utilities Put EU Incumbents Into a Double Squeeze.

FTTH: Double Squeeze of Incumbents - Forced to Partner?
This paper should be a wakeup call to EU governments and regulators. For ten years, discussions about how to regulate NGA (next generation access) have been ongoing. Meanwhile, the current regulatory policy is failing. Governments and regulators need to support FTTB/H investments now. Otherwise, the fibre gap between Europe and the United States, Asia and now the Middle East will further widen further.

Cable operators are already addressing this demand and are able to offer 50 to 100 Mbps broadband services at very competitive prices. They are thus acquiring a very high share of broadband net additions, many of which adopt 50 Mbps broadband services. Arthur D. Little projects that around 25 percent of Western European cable operators´ broadband subscribers will use broadband services with speeds of 50 Mbps or higher by 2012.

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