Spain will be the only major European country to have 100% of its homes connected to optical fibre by 2025
Spain’s long-standing leadership position in fibre optic deployment will continue to strengthen with a view to 2025. By that date, the country will be the only major European economy to have 100% of its households connected by this fixed broadband technology.
This is according to a report by the Moody’s rating agency, which states that European cable operators will make the leap to fibre optic cables over the next five years. All this to avoid losing competitiveness in an increasingly connected environment.
A race in which Spain has a head start, with 100 Mbps fibre optic broadband coverage reaching 88% of the population in 2020, four points more than in 2019, according to data from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.
The leap from cable to fiber
The advanced degree of fibre optic deployment in Spain means that the country is not being the scene of the battle taking place in Europe between hybrid fibre coaxial cable (HFC) companies and the traditional copper cable operators that have already made the leap to fibre.
HFC operators are seeing how the fibre rollout of their traditional copper rivals is causing them to lose what has been their main competitive advantage until now, the speed of their network. Thanks to it, in the past they were able to grow much faster in revenues and gain market share.
However, fibre optics has enabled incumbent telecommunications operators, led by the incumbents in each country, to design faster and more secure networks.
