Page 42 - Market Analysis Report of Optical Communications Field in China & Global market 2022

C H I N A
In South America, a region where optical fiber penetration continue to benefit from the data growth brought by the Eastern
is still low, the optical fiber market has grown slightly due to Digital and Western Computing, driving the demand for optical
the resumption of investment by major telecommunications fiber and cable industry to improve.
operators. Strong demand for communication products in The price of centralized procurement of optical cables has
the Chilean market. By the end of 2021, Brazil's broadband warmed up, and the industry's supply and demand pattern has
network has covered more than 90% of the population, and the gradually improved. Since the second half of 2021, especially
4G network construction has completed 80% of the target, with since October 2021, operators such as China Mobile and China
a user volume of 260 million. Telecom have shown a trend of increasing both quantity and
The demand for optical fiber and cable in the APAC market is price in their centralized procurement bidding for common
stable. In 2021, the Chinese market, which accounts for about optical cable products, and both the procurement scale and price
half of the global optical fiber and cable market demand, will have significantly increased compared to the previous year. In
improve, thus promoting the recovery of the global optical fiber the first half of 2022, the four major operators promoted the
and cable market. In China, after several years of contraction construction of 5G dual gigabit networks, making the optical
in the optical fiber and cable market, demand has resumed an fiber and cable industry profit.
upward trend, while prices have also risen. Driven by overseas markets, the global optical communication
Data consumption at all levels of North American society market is facing new development opportunities. Currently,
continues to grow significantly. Demand has led major market the global digitization process is accelerating, and countries
participants to increase investment in fiber optic network continue to strengthen investment in communication network
infrastructure. infrastructure construction. The demand for optical fiber and
According to Rankigs of Top 10 competitiveness in the optical cable in major overseas target market regions such as Europe,
fiber and cable field of Global market in 2022 released by the Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America is growing
Institute of Network Telecommunications Information, the top rapidly, and the overseas market for optical fiber and cable
10 enterprises are occupied by four countries, namely, from the continues to expand. The demand for optical fiber and cable in
United States (Corning), Italy (Prysman), Japan (Koko Electric/ overseas markets also promotes the export of China's optical
Ofs, Sumitomo Electric, Fujikura), and China (Changfei, fiber and cable products. According to customs data, from
Hengtong, Fenghuo, Zhongtian, and Futong), with Chinese January to June 2022, China's export volume of optical cables
enterprises accounting for half of the total. (customs code: 85447000) was 5.477 billion meters, up 12.65%
year-on-year.

According to rankings of Top 10 competitiveness enterprises
2.Analysis of optical fiber and cable market of China in the optical fiber and cable field of China in 2022, YOFC,
In 2022, China's 5G network construction accelerated, and Hengtong, FiberHome, ZTT and Futong are the top five
gigabit broadband penetration increased. As an important respectively.
transmission channel in optical communication networks, the The release of dividends in the operator market and overseas
performance of optical fiber and cable plays an important role in markets has stimulated the demand for optical fiber and cable,
ensuring network quality. With the development requirements stimulating the recovery of China's optical fiber and cable
of the next generation of large capacity and high-speed optical industry. China's optical fiber and cable enterprises have strong
transmission systems, new types of optical fiber and cable have competitiveness, which is also a strong proof that China's
a good development prospect. optical fiber and cable enterprises occupy a large market share
On February 17, 2022, with the official and comprehensive in the global market.
launch of the Mega-projects approved for data clusters, the
investment of the three major operators in 2022 will focus on Ⅱ. Global optical transmission market
the transmission network and the Eastern Digital and Western Due to the war in Ukraine, the weak euro currency, and soaring
Computing project. As a transmission channel for the Eastern fuel (natural gas and oil) costs, it is expected that the European
Digital and Western Computing, optical fiber and cable will optical transmission equipment market will decline in 2022,

40