I have been overwhelmed with various reports the last couple of days. Here’s some of the most interesting.
Tariff Consultancy reports that FTTH with conventional triple play broadband services is priced comparably to traditional ADSL2+ services. European 100MBps FTTH connections are reported at monthly prices of 29-35 euros (although significant differences in pricing still exist). There are some interesting remarks in Fiber Optics Online review.
In another study reviewed in Marketwatch.com, Infonetics Research reports 17% growth of PON market. GPON alone grew by 77% (primarily due to FiOS buildout). A major highlight of the report is that the costs of WDM-PON systems is still expected to be too high for most carriers in the early phases of the market, leading carriers to use WDM-PON for DSLAM backhaul applications, as opposed to FTTH deployments, until WDM-PON prices come down. The firm also acknowledges the increasing trend of GPON drop-outs (remarked in a couple of occasions in this blog too).
Market watch also commented on “Mobile Broadband in North America and Europe: Change is Key to Maintaining Profitability“,a report announced recently by Camiant Inc. In this analysis mobile carriers are advised to be cautious with mobile broadband offerings since anticipated traffic increase of up to 800% per year may significantly hurt their business models (if monetization of traffic is not optimized and if traffic grows over the network capacity). For that they are advised to build their business models on advanced services rather network connectivity. They are also advised to train customers on pay per use pricing schedules. Well, that’s exactly the way for “mobile set to replace fixed broadband in a quarter of European Homes” (recent report by Analysys Mason).
For last I saved you a Lightreading’s review on FTTx market. It is a 25 pages report that provides a general picture on the history, the present and the future of fiber access. A must read for the new in the field and a good summary recap for the older.
