Vincent Neil

Know the information center of information market (MIC) by scheme of money of Taiwan Delivered the research report to point out a few days ago, since 2005, global optic fibre has inserted the market and presented the fast growth trend under the drive that integration serve of owner's positive overall arrangement of telecommunications, the global investment value in FTTx has already exceeded 10 billion dollars, investment amount will exceed 50 billion dollars totally in the following five years.

The report claims, China's Mainland will become and develop one of the most quick countries, it is estimated FTTx capital cost will account for 20% to 25% of Asian-Pacific area, account for the proportion on the global market 20%. The report thinks, compare with technology of Cable Modem with xDSL, the transmissive advantage of FTTx high speed, make the demand for FTTx of consumer market higher and higher, in order to transmit digital many media contents. The popularization of the personal computer and low price of the broadband are reasons of user's snowball, it is estimated the global broadband users of fixed net will reach 400 million in 2008, among them xDSL occupies more than 60% of the markets, will top 500 million in 2010. Asian-Pacific area will become the market of broadband service of global maximum, it is estimated areas such as China's Mainland, Japan and South Korea,etc., hundred million will pass in the number of users by the end of 2007.

MIC analyzes that is thought, the laying rate of fiber optic net of the network community was 34.82% in 2005 in U.S.A., own by the end of 2006 936 communities with 47 states finished fiber to the home (FTTH) Network lay,last 1 million households optic fibre of North America number of users. Europe has already exceeded 1 million in the total number of users of fiber optic net at the end of 2006, among them 97% of the FTTx users centre in countries such as Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Holland and Norway,etc., and the popularization in the fiber optic net of Sweden and Italy is comparatively success, Sweden has 450,000 users, Italy has 370,000. Australia is regarded constitute FTTH little local area network as and has priority by the owner, offers Internet, TV and trinity service of telephone.

Number of users of FTTx fiber optic net of South Korea has already been up to 3,700,000 by February of 2007, popularity is about 26%, the popularity of FTTH family in it is estimated until 2010ing will exceed 70%. FTTx access technology of the area of China's Mainland is with FTTB (C) +LAN is a main fact, it is 26% to account for the wide-band Internet user's rate in 2006, the majority was building by local government at present, adopt the small-scale test in initial stage. Achievable 500,000 of the end of 07 of number of users of the fiber optic net of Taiwan, would be up to 1 million in 08, it will be expected to exceed 2,500,000 in 2010. Japan is during June of 2007, the number of users of the fiber optic net exceeds 9 million, it is estimated that will be up to 20 million users in 2010.

MIC thinks, Asian-Pacific area is still the main development area on a market of global optic fibre, Japan and South Korea because clear factor in market competition, market scale and state policies, lead the whole world in number of users and popularity continuously. And FTTH fiber optic net cloth of China's Mainland area builds and still takes particular area of the small-scale as the core, it is difficult to have on a large scale in short term the building case appears, but the fiber optics telecommunication industry of the area of China's Mainland, because of the intersection of domestic demand and the intersection of market and consumption potentiality, under leading manufacturer have international effect of scale drive for the first time already, it is take shape gradually not to gather and fall FTTH industry,development potentiality but issue.