Rural Telcos Continue Fiber Push, NTCA Survey Reports
Small rural telcos continue to reach more customers with high-speed fiber lines, said an NTCA news release Wednesday citing a survey of members. The report "found that 45 percent of survey respondents deploying fiber serve at least 50 percent of…
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their customers using fiber to the home (FTTH), up from 41 percent in 2013." In addition, 85 percent of respondents indicated they had a long-term fiber strategy, with 74 percent of those planning to offer fiber to the node to over three-quarters of their customers by the end of 2017; and 83 percent of respondents' customers have access to broadband speeds of 10 Mbps or greater, up from 66 percent the year before, though the majority of respondents' customers subscribe to 3 Mbps speeds or faster. Twenty percent of NTCA members participated in the winter 2014 online survey, said the group.