company news about America will add 100 million FTTH households over the next decade

Market research firm RVA predicts in a new report that the upcoming fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure will reach more than 100 million homes in the United States in about the next 10 years.

Canada and Caribbean countries will also see strong FTTH growth, RVA said in its Fiber Broadband Report in North America 2023-2024: FTTH and 5G Review and Forecast. The 100 million figure far exceeds the 68 million FTTH households covered in the United States to date. The latter total includes households with double coverage; RVA estimates that the number of FTTH households covered in the US, excluding duplicate coverage, is about 63m.

RVA expects telecom companies, cable Msos, independent providers, municipalities, rural electric cooperatives and others to participate in the FTTH wave. Over the next five years, capital investment by FTTH in the United States will exceed $135 billion, the report said. The RVA claims this is more than all the money the US has spent on FTTH deployments to date.

"The report's new data and research highlights the many potential drivers of this unprecedented deployment cycle," said Michael Render, CEO of RVA. Perhaps most importantly, as long as fiber is available, consumers will switch to fiber service providers."