Overseas FTTH Development Report
The highest number of global broadband users in China, the United States, Japan and South Korea, Taiwan, and four were more than 70% of broadband users worldwide. In addition to China, several other countries have faster broadband development has already begun a large-scale development of FTTH.
To March 2006, the Japanese FTTH users has reached 5.46 million, ranking first in the world. Recently, the U.S. FTTH is also rapidly developing, to the second quarter of 2006, the user has reached 463,000, ranking second in the world. In addition, many European countries have gradually begun a large-scale development of FTTx. FTTH development worldwide is entering the third wave.
Full competition in the development of the market
2001, the Japanese FTTH market and NTT only Usen and a few other companies, to July 2002, has nine companies FTTH business. As the market competition and government policies to encourage Japan's FTTH market has seen a rapid growth in recent years the situation, and by 2004 had grown to nearly 50 companies to provide FTTH services.
FTTH subscriber growth in Japan in fact the main reason is: As the DSL price war led to operators continue to lose money, it turned to strongly promote FTTH, FTTH prices continue to fall at the same time, the cost gap with DSL, and thus accelerate Japan fiber-optic user growth.
Korean broadband market in recent years, fierce competition makes the value of the major operators ARPU decline gradually, while the South Korean industry has to FTTH (and other various emerging FTTH-based business) identified as their savior. Thus, in the near-saturated broadband market among the South Korean order is not at a disadvantage in the competition, major broadband operators have launched its FTTH business to continue its comprehensive competitiveness.
In addition, the recent EU decision, approved by the German telecommunications regulatory body, forcing Deutsche Telekom to open up its worth 3 billion euros of being built ultra-high-speed broadband network. The original intention of EU law but also to create conditions for new ventures, so that they can enter the market dominated by state-owned telecommunications companies.
Competitive telecommunications market, bringing great prosperity, and to consumers has also brought great benefits. Although the short term, competition will lead to decline in operating profit, lower operating costs, but will again drive the market demand, thus promoting the sound development of the entire industry.
Government strategy and the control policy is the key
The Japanese government to FTTH penetration of advanced information society as a symbol of the level, even as a fiber optic line in 2003 the first year. 2001, Japan initiated the implementation of e-Japan strategy, its focus on the development of "high speed" broadband access means the guiding ideology of making high-speed broadband access service providers to rapidly increase the number. In December 2004 the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs made a u-Japan strategy, trying to build in Japan in 2010, a ubiquitous network. January 2006 IT Strategy Headquarters, Japan began to develop "IT New Reform Strategy", in the recent special section for the construction of broadband networks and put forward "a new generation of Broadband Strategy 2010", whose main goal is the comprehensive development of broadband in Japan, so no broadband access to the area to zero. Needless to say, this series of effective policies and greatly promoted the development of FTTH in Japan.
South Korea the broadband power not far behind. Government in 2003 to develop "IT839 strategy planning", plans to gradually replace the existing DSL development of FTTH networks, and ultimately the goal of u-Korea. The current South Korean government began to promote the BCN 6-year plan in the next few years, total government and private investment 80.4 billion U.S. dollars will be set up all over the country's communications network infrastructure, which will be fully part of the last mile towards FTTH.
Although the United States is the world's largest broadband access markets, but early in FTTH construction, have fallen far behind Japan and other countries. But since the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a "FTTH access network need not open to competitors," the policy was, FTTH development, great changes have taken place. FCC's non-binding policy on the development of FTTx operators must have a clear policy tilt, which makes two years, the U.S. FTTx subscribers worldwide to rank as the second.
FTTx gradually overwhelmed xDSL
The early development of the Japanese FTTH, FTTH users are mostly from the ISDN and dial-up users to migrate from. By mid-2004, ADSL subscriber growth began to slow trend, FTTH ADSL users started to seize market share. Figure 1 shows that the first quarter of 2005, FTTH subscriber growth in the quarter more than ADSL. It is predicted that the Japanese ADSL subscribers in 2006 or early 2007 began the second half of negative growth. By 2008, the Japanese FTTH subscribers to exceed ADSL broadband access as a major way.
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