Starting in the 80ies and 90ies, fibre optic infrastructure has found its way in the telecom backbones and has been more and more used in the access network to connect large business accounts. Nowadays, many companies and governments in Europe, America and Asia are exploring the potentials of FTTx technologies for the consumer market. The discussions, on what specific decisions should be taken by whom and how high the risks are if a certain way is entered or not, often seem to have an emotional touch.

Questions to be answered

• How is the regulation context concerning FTTx infrastructures and services? How much do subsidy or innovation programmes by national/local authorities or incumbents influence the FTTx deployment?
• Which types of actors invest in FTTx infrastructure? Which are the different business models of the major actors?
• What technologies and infrastructure solutions are preferred in the different countries and which are the reasons?
• What kind of services are offered on FTTx infrastructures? Where are the exclusive or innovative services? What are the differences to the service portfolio based on other fixed broadband infrastructures?
• How much bandwidth do today's services require? How will the bandwidth demand be in the near future? Which and where are the high bandwidth consuming killer applications?
• Which are alternative infrastructure solutions? Which is their today's penetration and will they respond to future needs?
• What are the investments and subscriber forecasts? What are the profitability forecasts?

Who should buy this report

Incumbents, alternative telcos and CaTV carrier:
InfoCom´s report can be used as a benchmark tool and reference document for strategic planning such as identifying the opportunities and best practices for the improvement and development of new services; in addition, the report allows the identification of potential threats and the evaluation of possible alternatives to achieve future targets.
Regulators:
Evaluation of the impact on the overall telecom market with the introduction of these new applications & technologies (operator competition, new players arriving, etc.).
Manufacturers and TV-content provider:
Market overview as regards the current user demand and other benchmark aspects with regard to the most successful technologies in operation, the development of promising applications, technical limitations, etc.
Investors and analysts:
To understand the impact of these new technologies within the global market of ICT and what are the potential future scenarios in terms of users, revenues, etc.