The number of homes connected with fiber in...
The number of homes connected with fiber in North America grew from 9.7 million in May 2013 to 10.4 million this year, said a survey by RVA for the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Council released Wednesday. Users reported spending…
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five hours a day at home online, using 5.5 Internet-ready devices in the home, a council news release said. Broadband users under 35 report getting just more than half of their video content from online sources, said the release. The importance of broadband to consumers “increases with each passing year,” said RVA President Michael Render in the release. End-to-end fiber networks “are becoming more and more differentiated from other types of broadband in terms of performance, use, and perception,” he said. Speed testing during the survey found that FTTH residences have five times faster download speeds and 23 times faster upload speeds, the release said. FTTH users spend 49 fewer hours annually waiting for applications to load than do users with the slowest type of broadband.