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The British government plans to invest £ 5 billion to support the optic projects, providing high-speed Internet services to nearly
deployment of gigabit broadband; Operator G.Network raised 280000 rural Ontario households in hundreds of communities
more than $1.3 billion to expand its "all fiber" deployment in throughout the province. This investment will help Ontario
London; operator Airband invested £ 100 million to accelerate achieve nearly 40% of its ambitious plan to achieve 100%
the development of FTTP in rural areas in the UK; Telefonica connectivity across all regions of the province by the end of
also sought partners in the UK to promote the construction of 2025. Between March and April 2022, the two sides invested
all fiber optic networks in the UK, and plans to upgrade its joint another 86 million Canadian dollars to help rural households
venture operator network in the UK to Fiber to Home (FTTP) achieve high-speed Internet connectivity.
within the next few years ; Truespeed, the operator, secured £ In February 2022, the Government of Canada and the
100 million in financing to accelerate the deployment of fiber Governments of Newfoundland and Labrador announced a
optic networks in England. historic plan to connect all remaining homes in Newfoundland
Germany is also a backward country in terms of FTTH and Labrador to reliable high-speed Internet. The Canadian
penetration, but Germany is increasingly attaching importance government will provide up to $116 million through UBF, while
to fiber optic construction and deployment. The German the governments of Newfoundland and Labrador will provide
government recently announced a strategy to triple the number up to $20 million.
of network connections by 2030 and ensure that all households On March 9, 2022, Canada and the Government of Alberta
and businesses in urban and rural areas can enjoy fiber to home expanded their partnership to provide up to $300 million in joint
(FTTH) and 5G services. According to a report by the European funding to connect rural communities in Alberta to the high-
media network EURACTIV, the German telecommunications speed Internet.
industry has committed to investing 50 billion euros in the
construction and expansion of private optical fibers in the next Ⅱ. Optical Communication Market of China
few years. 1. 5G network construction and gigabit broadband development
Deutsche Telekom AG announced that it will strive to achieve increase the demand for optical fiber and cable
10 million households' optical fiber access by 2024 and all
German households' optical fiber access by 2030; Vodafone China's 5G construction and gigabit broadband development
plans to invest 10 billion euros in a German fiber optic joint have increased the demand for optical fiber and cable, and the
venture to establish an FTTH network in addition to the total length of optical cable lines has steadily increased. By the
country's existing cable network. In areas where the value of end of September 2022, the total length of optical cable lines
commercial expansion is not high, the state will also provide nationwide had reached 58.76 million kilometers, a year-on-year
public subsidies. increase of 6%, and a net increase of 3.956 million kilometers
compared to the end of the previous year. The proportion of
North America access network optical cables, local network relay optical cables, and
North America is the second largest region in the global optical long-distance optical cable lines is 62.2%, 36%, and 1.8%, respectively.
fiber and cable market, and the United States is one of the main
markets. Development of total length of optical cable lines
FTTH deployments in the United States continue to exceed
traditional copper broadband, a trend that affects service
providers and suppliers.
According to data, as of November 2021, the number of fiber
optic home coverage in the United States was approximately
50 million, with telecommunications companies accounting for
the majority. Within five years, FTTH's share of the broadband
market will surge from 14% to 26%.
In 2022, the US government plans to spend another 600
million US dollars to develop rural broadband; According to
the analysis, the United States has ushered in a peak period of The construction of 5G network has been steadily promoted,
FTTH deployment, and Google Optical Fiber has restarted its effectively promoting the development of the optical fiber
expansion plan; Prysmian Group plans to spend $85 million to and cable industry. According to the Ministry of Industry
upgrade equipment and technology at its North American plant and Information Technology, as of the end of September, the
to expand its optical fiber and cable capacity in North America. total number of mobile communication base stations in China
In addition, in the past three years, the United States government reached 10.72 million, a net increase of 754000 compared
and various operators have repeatedly invested in strengthening to the end of last year. Among them, the total number of 5G
the construction of the 5G network and the research and base stations reached 2.22 million, a net increase of 795000
development of optical fiber technology in the United States. compared to the end of the previous year, accounting for 20.7%
In Canada, on July 29, 2021, the Government of Canada and the of the total number of mobile base stations, and an increase of 6.4
Government of Ontario collaborated to support large-scale fiber percentage points compared to the end of the previous year.
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