EU Fibre-to-the-Home Bill To Top 500 Billion Euros

The European Commission has estimated that about 500 billion euros of capital expenditure will be required to expand fibre to the home (FTTH) services across the EU by 2025. Speaking at the Gigabit Access event in Brussels on Tuesday, Anthony Whelan, director of DG Connect Directorate B at the European commission, said: "We estimate the sort of investment required, if you follow the normal capex structures of the industry, will be somewhere in the region of 500 billion euros, and we see an investment cycle that would see us hitting around 335 billion investment by 2025. So you are looking at a shortfall in excess of 150 billion euros and various strategies need to be devised to address that gap." source: Total Telecom article