FTTH in the UK
Fibre To The Home (FTTH) is rapidly taking over everyday broadband across the world but unfortunately lacks any momentum in the UK.
TalkTalk are one of the most promising companies to offer us any kind of decent package in the future and are currently piloting a 40mb service in both London and Cardiff..
Virgin Media have also pledged to expand their network to another 500,000 homes over the next few years and are trialling a 200Mb broadband package.
Whilst all this is good news and moving the country’s broadband quality forward it still seems very slow compared to the rest of the world, take Japan for example, the Hikari 1Gb FTTH service is a fibre based connection to the home, costing around £30 per month and offering staggering speeds, giving you the ability to download high definition movies in just a couple of minutes or an entire album from in just a few seconds. 1Gb services reach almost 15 million homes across Japan currently.
Broadbandgenie.co.uk did a great article earlier this year showing that UK Fibre Optic Broadband did not even enter the top 20 in the super fast fibre optic countries coming below the likes of Latvia and Russia.