"We chose fiber to the home because a lot of services need 100 megabits per second and more. At present fiber seems like a dream but five years ago no one heard of DSL (digital subscriber line). Now if people don't have it, it's a drama."France Telecom has revealed more details of its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) rollout. It is using GPON technology and plans to have between 150 000 and 200 000 subsribers by year end 2008. The service will offer users 100Mbit/s symmetrical access data rates.
France Telecom has become Europe's incumbent trail blazer with regard to PON deployment. This is due to the fierce competition in France, with the Iliad group undertaking its own FTTx rollout which it plans to open to other service providers. But to put France Telecom's subscriber targets in perspective, Japan is connecting some 300 000 FTTx users a month.
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