Britain and rest of the Europe to get left behind if they do not launch high-speed broadband fast

Britain and the rest of Europe may end up looser if they do not launch high- speed broadband in time, suggests a representative of one industry.

Fibre to the Home (FTTH) Council declares that 100Mb/s connections have to be attained very soon, if the UK is looking to be ahead in the race for technology and novelty.

A study conducted by Heavy Reading reveals that the Fibre Optic Broadband Connections are expected to reach about 20 homes by 2020. This is said to be 4 years after it was introduced in France, Italy and Germany.

Meanwhile, the President of the FTTH Council, Chris Holden remarked that even if UK is considered to be the first to introduce first generation broadband, however, in terms of next generation broadband access, UK is the last.

Several of the Eastern European Countries like Lithuania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia and Slovenia, by now report extra FTTH users in comparison to the UK, equally in terms of the percentage of entire home as well as in total quantity.

Holden further says that Sweden was considered the premium FTTH nations in the continent. It can claim a few 500,000 houses, with access to fibre-optic connections.

Holden’s observations come after the assurance by Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary that Britain will have the quickest broadband connections in Europe by 2015.

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