Report: A minority of US homes will have high-performance broadband in 2015

The Fiber-to-the-Home Council released a report that evaluated the nation’s current and future broadband capabilities and the benefits of maintaining networks to meet those future needs.

The study, done by the CSMG consulting firm, made the following observations:

• At current course and speed, high-performance broadband will be available to a minority of US homes by 2015 and many homes will have only one provider of such service.
• This base case deployment scenario will be inadequate for enabling nextgeneration services such as HD/3D video, cloud computing, and very large downloads/uploads due to throughput constraints and QoS limitations.
• Accelerating high-performance broadband deployment to 80% of the US (101.6M homes) by 2015 will facilitate widespread adoption of next-generation applications.
• The total investment required for deploying high-performance broadband at an accelerated pace would be $33.313 (if 54% HP), $62.2B (if 69% HP), or $89.2B (if 80% HP) – scales of investment that are possible given historical capital expenditure levels of major service providers.

Read the full report here.

National Broadband Policy Evaluation

CSMG Report (FTTH Council)