Figures on super fast broadband delivered by fibre to the home shows a 18% growth since the last survey compile in 2008.    This equates to more than two million people in Europe and suggests that the global economic downturn has not hit plans to build a fibre infrastructure.

Sweden is at the top of the list I rolling out the technology with 10.9% of its broadband customers using fibre.   By 2012 the Europe’s Fibre-To-The-Home Council (FTTH) expect the figure to rise to 13million people across 35 European nations.  More that 223 projects are underway to lay the fibres that would connect homes or buildings to the net.  Many of these projects are being operated by local governments or smaller net firms.