About the Committee

The Investments & ESG Committee brings together the work of the Council's former Investors, Sustainability and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion committees under a single structure, reflecting how closely capital, environmental performance and social responsibility are now linked in digital infrastructure.

The Committee provides a forum for investors, operators and industry experts to examine the financial and non-financial factors shaping fibre and data centre investment across Europe. Its scope spans the investment landscape and financing conditions for network rollout, the environmental footprint and sustainability credentials of fibre infrastructure, and the governance and diversity practices that support a resilient, competitive industry.

By combining these perspectives, the Committee aims to give members a clearer view of how ESG considerations influence investment decisions,  and how the sector can demonstrate its value to the investors, policymakers and stakeholders who rely on that evidence.

This page is new and growing. The Committee's reports, studies, and other resources will be added here as they're published - in the meantime, you can explore the latest assets below.

Definitions of Terms

The mission of the Fiber to the Home Global Councils (FGCA) includes the communication to stakeholders in our respective regions of the extent of usage of FTTH throughout the world and forecasting the growth of FTTH. This task has been made difficult by the proliferation of terms and acronyms, while no doubt useful to individual organizations for their specific purposes, lack precise definitions. This is of particular concern when different research organizations choose their own definitions when conducting research.

As a consequence, it becomes impossible to compare the research on FTTH between different regions, or between different studies of the same region. This document defines the terms used by all the FTTH Councils (North America, LATAM, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia-Pacific, and sub-Saharan Africa) and specifically aims to reduce the terms used to a subset that are well defined, adequate and useful.

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