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The 2012 FTTH European conference of Munich gives the European FTTx latest progress informations
2012 European FTTH Conference held in Munich, Germany on the 14th to the 16th. In addition to more and more companies concerned about the FTTH Conference, the development statistics published by the General Assembly also cause for concern.
According to statistics released by the General Assembly, 2011 European FTTX user data as 10.4 million, of which 5.7 million belong to the EU countries. The number of FTTX subscribers of the world up to 75 million. The FTTX network coverage of the 20 countries is more than 1% in Europe. 28.3% of Lithuania's coverage ranked the forefront in Europe. Norway penetration came in second with 14.7 percent. Followed by Sweden, Bulgaria, Latvia, Slovakia and other countries. On the actual number of users, Russia is the No.1 with 4.5 million users. Followed by France, Ukraine, Italy, Portugal. On the Growth rate, Turkey and Portugal are listed first. The FTTX development of the traditional European is also better. Since the conflict was solved between France Telecom and competitors, the deployment of FTTH is accelerated in France recently, and it can reach more than 20% of the coverage is estimated to be 2018. Consistently the FTTX less active in the Deutsche Telekom also recently declared it would take to speed up the development. Consistently poor performance of the United Kingdom most recently active in FTTH area, Britain already has the 7750 FTTH households. Spain is also expected to enter the rankings. According to the FTTH Conference of 2011, FTTX user to covering number was increased by 41%, the actual number of users increased by 28%.
In the FTTH European Commission HartwigTauber opinion, the achievements of 2011 can not entirely satisfactory. One is the development of a slower rate than expected, one is FTTH business utilization slipped to 18.4 percent from 20.3 percent in 2010. He believes that the main reason is uncertain European economic outlook.
According to the report of worldwide FTTH development of the FTTH Conference that the number of UAE FTTH network coverage over 55%, followed by Japan more than 25%, Norway 15%. Broadband penetration has about 16% of FTTH in South Korea, Hong Kong more than 10%. The same information from the FTTH Conference said that it has 28 percent of China Taiwan FTTX penetration, but almost none of FTTH. The FTTX penetration of the Chinese mainland is less than 4% of FTTH is less than 0.5%.
According to the estimates of market advisory body Heavy Reading，FTTX users of Europe is expected to reach 32 million in 2016, about 17 million users in the EU countries. Then European FTTX penetration can be achieved to 10.6%. According to the EU's goal, they plan to achieve 30Mbps downstream bandwidth of all of home in 2020,achieve over 100Mbps bandwidth more than half of home.
