There are now 650 U.S. communities wired with fiber optics, up from 217 a year ago, according to the U.S. Optical Fiber Communities 2005 report issued today at the FTTH Conference in Las Vegas.
Those deployments are being driven by a number of factors, one of which is the 50% average take rate of FTTH deployments, said report author Michael Render, president of Render, Vanderslice & Associates.
The list of connected communities is available at http://www.ftthcouncil.org . Render’s report was sponsored by the Fiber-to-the-Home Council, the Telecommunications Industry Association and Fiber Optic Communities of the U.S., an education and support group for FTTH communities. There are now FTTH deployments in 46 states, and 322,700 homes are connected.
The only states with no fiber optic communities identified are Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi and Rhode Island.
All but 100 of the 257 deployments since the list was updated in the spring of 2005 are being done by Verizon. But there were also 46 deployments by independent telcos and 25 by CLECs, as well as 13 by municipalities.
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Those deployments are being driven by a number of factors, one of which is the 50% average take rate of FTTH deployments, said report author Michael Render, president of Render, Vanderslice & Associates.
The list of connected communities is available at http://www.ftthcouncil.org . Render’s report was sponsored by the Fiber-to-the-Home Council, the Telecommunications Industry Association and Fiber Optic Communities of the U.S., an education and support group for FTTH communities. There are now FTTH deployments in 46 states, and 322,700 homes are connected.
The only states with no fiber optic communities identified are Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi and Rhode Island.
All but 100 of the 257 deployments since the list was updated in the spring of 2005 are being done by Verizon. But there were also 46 deployments by independent telcos and 25 by CLECs, as well as 13 by municipalities.
http://telephonyonline.com/fttp/news/FTTH_communities_growth_100405/
