The number of U.S. households subscribing to FTTx (fiber-to-the-node, -curb, or -home) will increase from 3 million in 2007 to 18 million by the end of 2011, driven by aggressive deployment plans from the telcos and increased consumer demand for new data, voice, and video services, according to Parks Associates.
“While fiber is a small percentage of total U.S. broadband household subscriptions today, it will achieve a faster growth rate than what DSL and cable did after their inception,” said Chris Roden, research analyst at Parks Associates.
The projections roughly compare with those in another recent report which notes that although FTTx will be successful, in three years, it will still be available only in pockets (story here). That study said it expects it to reach fewer than 14 percent of all homes; assuming 120 million U.S. households in 2010, that works out to about 17 million homes passed – or fewer homes passed in 2010 than Parks Associates expects likely to be subscribers in 2011.