China, India to dominate FTTX investment by 2013

The firm predicts the Asia-Pacific region will be the largest market for fiber to the home access technology at $12 billion or 52.8% of the market. China alone will account for nearly half the region, with 46% of the total market. “China and India will become the dominant investors in FTTX access technology within a few years as they add large numbers of fixed access lines (more than 13 million per year in China and close to four million per year in India), which will be using mostly fiber technology,” reports Dittberner vice president Dr. Alain Thiney.

The predicted relative importance of China and India in the FTTX world market is a direct result of the size of their populations. The forecasting model incorporates moderate teledensity increases over the next 10 years for these two countries-from 21.1 to 30 for China and 4.5 to 7 for India.