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FTTH deployments slowing / Rural Broadband Gains

Does your greenfield Fiber to the Home business plan depend on new home sales? Last year US telco's were all talking about Fiber to the Home. This was driven by a rapidly growing housing sector that was creating lots of the “greenfield” customers that are needed to make fiber to the home prove in. Now, with the housing sector in a serious recession, that "green" field seems to be drying up fast. [1] With most of the “brownfield” market already tapped for ADSL [2], Telco's now seem to be interested in extending ADSL to those semi-rural areas that have never been important before. Your rural and suburban customers can be an important growth area this year. ADSL Loop extenders are the perfect way to get new customers with a minimal cash outlay.