The three million U.S. subscribers with home fiber links in 2007 will skyrocket to 18 million by the year 2011, according to recent research.
Over the next five years the amount of fiber subscriptions will rise to rival cable and DSL connections, a report from Parks Associates has shown. A combination of telecom companies pushing the connections and consumer demand for new information and video services will see use of fiber lines rise exponentially, the report states.
"While fiber is a small percentage of total US broadband household subscriptions today, it will achieve a faster growth rate than DSL and cable did after their inception," said research analyst Chris Roden. Large communication companies like Verizon and AT&T are intending to beat the broadband deals offered by cable companies and their plans to improve their copper networks, added Mr. Roden. Additionally, rising consumer demand for bundled services including IPTV and video-on-demand are also pushing the demand for fiber links, the Parks Associates report stated.
"An intensely competitive communications market is making deployment of new services, like IPTV, a critical objective for many service providers," states Mark Weibel EVP of Marketing for Broadband National, who operates the industries leading comparative shopping website, "But service structure and payment models used to deliver IPTV vary widely by region and service provider."
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