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With Australia having ditched FTTH for FTTN in many cases despite a reported similar cost as an FTTH rollout, Asia Pacific’s impressive 10-year milestone of 100 million connections sadly won’t be reaching 120 million via Australia any time soon.

A report on the development of FTTH networks in the US from research firm RVA suggests that the Labor Government is on the right track with its ambitious plan to serve 93 percent of premises by fibre. However Ovum has backed AT&T's decision to focus on FTTN.

The FTTH Council has published an updated ranking of global fibre to the home or fibre to the building deployments showing that 30 countries can now boast fibre to at least one percent of premises. Australia still does not make the grade.

According to the FTTH Council fibre to the home networks now pass almost 20 million homes, and seven million of these have signed up for services delivered over FTTH.

The FTTH Council Asia Pacific has been left with a large amount of egg on its face after it made, and subsequently withdrew, a critical submission to an NBN Co consultation paper that it had failed to get approved by key vendor members.