LTE smashes FTTH in Japan prompting 34% price cut
Japanese customers, particularly young adults, are increasingly turning away from FTTH and toward LTE.
“Fixed-broadband giants NTT East and NTT West have been forced to slash their FTTH prices for new subscribers by 34 per cent to try and re-ignite their subscriber growth and stop the outflow of subscribers to cheaper LTE mobile broadband services,” wrote Tony Brown, senior analyst with Informa Telecoms & Media. NTT DoCoMo only launched LTE about two years ago and reached 6.2m LTE subscribers by the end of September.