1. Fiber to the home –
Situation und Entwicklung in Europa
Hartwig Tauber, Director General, FTTH Council Europe
openaxs Konferenz
August 2011

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FTTH
Europe
Council

3. FTTH Council Europe
Our Vision: A sustainable future enabled by Fibre to the Home
Our Mission
• To accelerate FTTH adoption through information and
promotion in order to enhance the quality of life, contribute
to a better environment and increased competitiveness
Organisation
• Founded in 2004, non-profit industry organisation
• More than 150 member companies
• Industry only – no operators

4. FTTH Conference 2012
14-16 February 2012, Munich, Germany
www.ftthconference.eu

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Europe in the slow lane?

6. FTTH Global panorama end-2010 – Total subscribers
4.2 M
8.8 M 3.9 M 45 M
0.3 M
… and FTTH continues to grow

7. Digital Agenda of European Commission
• By 2020…
• At least 50% of the households in European Union will use
broadband connections of 100 Mbit/s or more
• All households in European Union have broadband connections of
at least 30 Mbit/s available
• Published in Q2/2010
• High priority in some European countries

8. FTTH Global Ranking – end 2010

9. FTTH European Ranking – end 2010

10. Analysis of European Broadband Market
• EU is not one single telecommunication market (like US)
• Each member state has its specific broadband market with different
players involved. Examples:
• Countries with strong utility involvement: e.g Sweden, Denmark,
Finland
• Countries with strong competition on last mile: e.g. The Netherlands,
France
• Countries with strong government involvement: e.g. Portugal,
Slovenia
• Countries with strong incumbent and competition mainly on
unbundling basis: e.g. Germany, UK
• Countries with main focus on mobile market: e.g. Austria
• There are no real „pan-European“ players. One operators often acts very
different in different countries, e.g. Deutsche Telekom or France Telecom

11. FTTH in Eastern Europe
• High number of former Easter European countries in European ranking:
• Baltic states
• Slovenia
• Slovakia
• Bulgaria
• Rumania
• Czech Republic
• Three main reasons:
• Need for building or rebuilding communication infrastructure (e.g.
Lithuania)
• Strong involvement of Western European Operators (e.g. Slovakia)
• Dynamic market with many new players (e.g. Bulgaria)

12. European Region FTTH Forecast
35000
32604
30000
Connected Households, 000s
25665
25000
19430
20000
14476
15000
11065
10000 8265
5519
5000 3509
1892
0
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Source: Heavy Reading for FTTH Council Europe, February 2011
Note: Households connected directly to fibre (FTTH) and apartments connected via basement fibre termination (FTTB)

13. Europe in Context: the Race to Fibre Maturity
After
Country 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2020
Japan
Korea
China
Taiwan
Australia
India
USA
Canada
Brazil
Russia
France
Germany
Italy
UK
Spain
Sweden
Netherlands
Portugal
Switzerland
Note: chart shows the year in which each territory
Denmark is expected on current trends and plans to
EUROPEAN UNION achieve “fiber maturity”, defined here as 20%
household penetration of FTTH or FTTB
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Source: Heavy Reading for FTTH Council Europe, February 2011

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Why FTTH?

15. Asking the wrong questions
• Would you ask: “Will we ever need an oven
that heats up to 250 Degree Celsius?”
• Would you ask: „Will we ever need 18 litres/minute
in the shower?“
• Would you ask: „Will we ever need 230 Volts
in the power socket?“
• But you ask: „Will we ever need 100 Mbit/s?“

16. Let’s ask differently
Would you like to download an HD movie in less than 30 minutes and therefore start
watching it immediately?
Would you like to do an online-backup of your 60 Gbyte harddrive in less than 90 minutes?
Would you like to do an HD video-chat with your friends while downloading files in the
background?
Would you like to watch a HD video on demand while you record another HD video at the
same time?
Would you like to play your online-games at the speed of light?
Would you like to work from home and access the company file server as fast as if you sit
in your office?

17. Let’s ask differently
Would you like to download an HD movie in less than 30 minutes and therefore start
watching it immediately?
Would you like to do an online-backup of your 60 Gbyte harddrive in less than 90 minutes?
Would you like to do an HD video-chat with your friends while downloading files in the
background?
Would you like to watch a HD video on demand while you record another HD video at the
same time?
Would you like to play your online-games at the speed of light?
Would you like to work from home and access the company file server as fast as if you sit
in your office?

18. Consumer applications
Real Teleworking
3D TV
working from 3D in Full HD:
home like in the 60 Mbit
office
Online Editing Enhanced Video-
Communications
of Videos and (e.g. care for
Photos elderly people)
Online Gaming
FTTH
Upload • no delays
of HD Videos • interactive
(YouTube) environments
• virtual communities

19. Business applications
Virtual
companies: Efficient
on demand Healthcare
enterprises Next
Intelligent Generation
Power Grid Online
Entertainment
Telepresence:
“Knowledge
High quality
Economy“
video comms
Cloud South Korea:
FTTH
“we are a 1 Gbit
Computing: all
country“
applications UK: “we are a 2
online Mbit country!“

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The Impact of FTTH

21. Example of Hudkisvall
• Hudkisvall:
– Population: 15.000
– Location: 300 km North of Stockholm
– FTTH-Network decision: 2004
• Impact:
– Population decline stopped, partial increase
– Increase of number of businesses: 6-14% per year
– Two high-growth businesses founded premises in Hudkisvall
– Old@home Ehealth-project started
– National research instituted stared subsidiary

22. Example of ARGE Glasfaser Waldviertel
• Three municipalities (Bad Großpertholz, St. Martin, Großschönau)
in rural Austrian area
• Start of deploying new sewers network in 2006
• Mayors decision: deployment of FTTH in parallel
– With support of local population
– Against incumbent and regional politics (Bundesland)
• Impact:
– 100 Mbit/s parallel network available including
triple play
– Young families start to move back into
municipalities
– “Connected tourists”
– “Sonnenplatz” – competence centre on passive
houses founded in Großschönau
– Special connected homes for elderly people will
open 2012

23. Conclusion

24. Conclusion
• FTTH is the infrastructure of the 21st century
• FTTH stands for
– Quality of life
– Economic leadership
– Socioeconomic benefits
• …and the basis for a competitive Europe

25. Thank you for your attention!
www.ftthcouncil.eu