Research and Markets: broadband becoming a common component of many planned community projects

Fiber Optics Weekly Update, July 1, 2005

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Community Outreach: Broadband in U.S. Master Planned Communities to their offering.

Broadband is becoming a common component of many planned community projects. The high-tech market research firm reports that in 2004, broadband service revenues from planned communities totaled $164 million, and that figure will rise to $815 million in 2009.

Key Findings Include:

- 226,000 households in planned communities subscribed to a development-wide broadband system in 2004. By 2009, 896,000 households will have subscribed to these broadband networks.

- Without an existing network in place, it is easier to justify an advanced broadband solution, such as FTTC or FTTH, in new neighborhoods. Furthermore, because trenches are already being dug in these neighborhoods for utilities to be run, service providers are able to piggyback by laying fiber alongside the utilities, reducing the cost of deployment.

The report, Community Outreach: Broadband in U.S. Master Planned Communities, examines the market for broadband service delivery to MPCs in the United States. Communities considered in this discussion and forecast include all centrally managed, cohesive communities that have implemented, for residents' use, either a compulsory or optional broadband service. The focus of the report is on Greenfield developments, rather than communities that have been retrofitted with broadband deployments.

The Master Planned Community (MPC) market is a showcase and a testing ground for new technologies and services. Because of the particular characteristics of many developments earmarked to become connected communities, providers see these neighborhoods as ideal test beds for new services, such as FTTH and bundled service offerings. This report examines the residential Greenfield market for broadband services, with forecasts including the following:

- Number of homes served by last mile technologies

- Market potential for Greenfield deployments

- Current and projected market saturation

- Service revenues for bundled service delivery

For more information, please visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c19576.