The objective of this committee is to help Communication Service Providers avoid churn & create revenue opportunities through the provision of enhanced user experience.

While more and more households have access to full-fibre network, it becomes crucial to avoid home connectivity becoming a bottle neck and that the new gigabit services can efficiently reach end user devices without degradation of speed or performance.

The In-Home Broadband Excellence committee addresses the following questions:

how to provide, manage and monitor ‘Quality of Experience’ for the end-user
how to monetise value-added services and reduce costs
how to leverage standards and provide pointers to industry fora

You can expect multiple initiatives from this dynamic group, such as the In-Home Broadband Excellence Guide, available for every member of the FTTH Council Europe and sold to non-members at a price of €36 inc. VAT* una tantum, intended to help Communication Service Providers understand the topic of ‘In-home Broadband Excellence’ and optimize their business strategies to reap the benefits of fibre-based connectivity delivered to end-users' premises.

The In-Home Broadband Excellence committee is also very much engaged in the organisation of workshops at the annual FTTH Conference, as well webinars and other communications.

_{*This price includes 21% VAT applicable in Belgium. If you are purchasing on behalf of a company based outside of Belgium you will not be required to pay VAT. For all UK and EC Member state registered companies please have your VAT number to include when purchasing}

European FTTH/B Market Panorama 2024

Mar 20, 2024

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On the occasion of the FTTH Conference 2024, the Market Intelligence Committee of the FTTH Council Europe launched the 2024 edition of the FTTH/B Market Panorama, presenting the latest insights in terms of FTTH/B coverage and adoption in Europe as of September 2023.

The total number of homes passed with Fibre to the Home (FTTH) and Fibre to the Building (FTTB) in the EU39¹ reached 244 million homes in September 2023, compared to nearly 221 million in September 2022.

The main movers in terms of homes passed in absolute numbers are the United Kingdom (+4,7 M), Germany (4,4 M), and France (+2,5 M).

The top 5 of the annual growth rates in terms of homes passed is headed by Belgium (+43%), the United Kingdom (+38%), Germany (+37%), Serbia (+30%), and Croatia (+28%). FTTH/B coverage rate in EU39 now amounts to 69,9% (up by 6,5 percentage points vs 2022) and coverage rate in the EU27+UK now reaching 64,5% (vs 55,1% from 2022). These data re-confirm the continuous upward trend observed for several years in a row now.

The number of FTTH and FTTB subscribers in the EU39 region reached 121 million. The 5 fastest growing markets in terms of new subscribers were France (+3,4 M), United Kingdom (+1,8 M), Turkey (+1 M), Spain (+985 K), and Italy (+919 K).

By September 2023, the EU39 FTTH/B take-up rate² raised to 49.6% (up by 1,1 percentage point from the previous year). A clear indication that, despite the progress being made, there is still a huge gap between fibre coverage and adoption. Nevertheless, progress has been made in the EU27+UK area, where the take-up rate grew up by 1,3 percentage points compared to 2022, reaching 52,7 in 2023.

Overall, the contribution of EU27+UK to the total is increasing, both for home passed and subscriptions, however, the report observes that more needs to be done in terms of subscriptions to reach the 2030 Digital Decade objectives of the European Commission, as only 1 in 4 countries exceeds the 50% penetration rate.

Finally, in terms of technology choices, it is worth mentioning that gigabit-capable technologies such as 5G FWA, G.fast and Docsis 3.1/4.0 are still being deployed to meet the current home bandwidth demands, delaying FTTH in some areas.

¹EU39 = EU27+UK + 4 CIS countries + Iceland, Israel, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey
²Subscribers – as a proportion of Homes Passed

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