Friday, October 06, 2006

Soundbite: FTTH in Europe

“No European incumbent has announced a large FTTH deployment because they realise there is no business case... FTTH is very risky and very uncertain, with negative returns just to stay in the game.”

Lars Godell, principal analyst, European telecoms, at Forrester Research, who fears carriers are being pressured to enter the FTTH market in a way reminiscent of 3G spectrum auctions six years ago. Click here for Total Telecom article.

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