A report recently produced for the FTTH Council Europe by IDATE details FTTH projects in Europe. 201 projects are analysed with detailed qualitative and quantitative data. I've only seen extracts of the final work, but it seems like a good sum of crucial FTTH-related data (and incidentally suggests that the World of Fiber Map is missing a lot of European projects !)
A number of interesting figures featured in this report:
- In France, Free passes 241.000 homes, Orange passes 146.000 and Neuf passes 120.000. One thing to remember though, is that due to the difficulty in getting co-owners' approvals to penetrate multi-tenant buildings, these figures in no way indicate a customer potential at this stage.
- Lyse in Norway passes 110.000 homes but has over 86.000 customers, which confirms that their model generates high takeup.
- B2 in Sweden passes 390.000 homes.
- Overall, IDATE estimates at 1 million the number of FTTH/B subscribers in Europe and at nearly 5 millions the number of homes passed.
Another interesting point which was made at the conference but that I wasn't aware of is that Point to Point deployments are actually more important than PON deployments in Europe, although PON has been selected by a number of large projects, so this dynamic could change in the near future.
This looks like a really interesting study, done by IDATE for the FTTH Council, which I hope I can get a hold of... You can see some of the tables in this article from Silicon.fr. The article is in French, but the tables are in English.
