Welcome to the FTTH Council Europe

Fibre to the home (FTTH) Council Europe reveals exclusive preliminary data from its highly awaited market panorama, which will be unveiled in full during the FTTH Conference in Lisbon on 24-25 February, in the presence of Portuguese Prime Minister Eng. José Socrates (Subject to Confirmation) during the opening session.

Out of the recently announced 60 billion euros public investment programme intended to raise France’s growth rate, 4.5 billion have been earmarked for the digital economy, including 750 million for the digitisation of the French cultural heritage.
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The FTTH Council Europe was present at the APDC Congresso das Comunicações '09, 18 – 19 November 2009, where Hartwig Tauber, Director General of the FTTH Council Europe, met with the Portuguese Minister of Economy and Innovation, José Vieira da Silva, and the Portuguese Minister of Telecommunications and Infra-structures, António Mendonça.

Karel Helsen, president of the FTTH Council Europe, spoke on 3 December at the 2009 World Summit of Cloud Computing, organised by the Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT). The FTTH Council Europe newly launched Israel Working Group has joined forces with the IGT because of the complementary activities of the two organisations.

Operator Hong Kong Broadband Network has just announced its Millionth FTTH Subscription, reached in December 2009.
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"Investment in high-speed broadband is about investing in health, it is about investing in education, it is about investing in energy efficiency measures, it is about investing in the capacity and future vitality of our regional centres", declared Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, in his keynote speech at the "Realising our broadband future" conference on 11 December.

Last year some 11,5 million new fixed Internet lines were rolled out to European citizens. According to a recently published report from the European Commission, 24% of all EU citizens have now broadband access. That’s a solid increase from only 21,6% in July 2008, up to a current total of 120 million fixed broadband lines.

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