FTTB
Fiber To The Building

Moldtelecom began to offer Internet connection via FTTB in May 2008.

Chunghwa Telecom offers FTTB in Taiwan.

If instead the fiber goes only as far as the apartment building's shared electrical room (either only to the first floor or to each floor), it is FTTB.

Take-up rate for the FTTB network is calculated by dividing the number of FTTB subscribers by the total number of households passed.

Since 2006, RCS&RDS are moving internet and phone subscribers (especially those who live in apartment buildings) from the cable DOCSIS 2.0 network to their new FTTB infrastructure.

O-NET, by Olds Fibre, Ltd., is Canada's first community-owned Gigabit FTTH and FTTB carrier in Canada.

FTTP (fiber-to-the-premises): This term is used either as a blanket term for both FTTH and FTTB, or where the fiber network includes both homes and small businesses.

In Moldova FTTB has been deployed by StarNet and Arax since 2006 and Moldtelecom since 2008 in the city of Chișinău at first and other towns and regional centers later.

Integration of the Kyivstar company, a mobile communications operator, and the Beeline-Ukraine, a fixed telecom business and broadband access based on FTTB, made it possible to create a multi-service operator with unique capacities and experience.

In July 2007 Neuf announced it will only use FTTH in new deployments and that the existing Erenis FTTB users would be switched to FTTH at some time in the future.

For more information about AT&T's fiber to the building program, please visit: www.att.com/fiberreadybuilding.

"We had to bring fiber to the buildings, because it was not there," Mr. Moinian said.

This article lists the deployment of fiber to the premises, fiber to the home and fiber to the building by country.

With the technology leap from Fiber to the Building to FTTH, end-users can enjoy the full benefits of Future Technology today.

RCS & RDS is Romania's largest adopter of Fiber to the building (FTTB) and Fiber to the home (FTTH).

Cyberjaya Metro Fibre Network, CMFN - Fiber to the Building (FTTB) and Fiber to the home (FTTH).

On the surface, the major markets seem well served, but it is an industry axiom that only 5 percent of all businesses in the US have fiber to the building, leaving the other 95 percent with a fiber shortage.

Under the fiber to the building program, Florida businesses in these AT&T Fiber Ready Buildings have access to an expanded array of security, network and cloud-based services, all of which ride on the fiber network.