The United States Will Add 100 Million FTTH Home Coverage in The Next Ten Years

Market research firm RVA predicts in a new report that upcoming fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure will reach more than 100 million U.S. households within the next roughly 10 years.

FTTH will also grow strongly in Canada and the Caribbean, RVA said in its 《North American Fiber Broadband Report  2023- 2024 FTTH and 5G Review and Forecast》. The 100 million figure far exceeds the 68 million FTTH household coverage in the United States to date. The latter total includes duplicate coverage households; RVA estimates, excluding duplicate coverage, that the number of US FTTH household coverage is about 63 million.

RVA expects telcos, cable MSOs, independent providers, municipalities, rural electric cooperatives and others to join the FTTH wave. According to the report, capital investment in FTTH in the US will exceed $135 billion over the next five years. RVA claims that this figure exceeds all the money spent on FTTH deployment in the United States to date.

RVA Chief Executive Michael Render said: "The new data and research in the report highlights a number of underlying drivers of this unprecedented deployment cycle. Perhaps most importantly, consumers will switch to fiber service delivery as long as fiber is available. business."