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More than two million people in Europe now have fiber broadband(光纤宽带)direct to their home, suggests a survey. The latest ________1.________ on superfast broadband delivered by fiber to the home (FTTH) show 18% growth over the last survey compiled in late 2008.

The continued growth suggests that the ________2.________ economic decline has not hit plans to build fiber networks. Sweden ________3.________ the list of nations applying the technology, with 10.9% of its broadband customers using fiber. Karel Helsen, president of Europe’s Fiber-To-The-Home Council, said the growth matched predictions that were ________4.________ when the credit crisis started to make itself felt. “The numbers in 2009 are in line with the latest forecasts,” said Mr. Helsen.

By 2013, the FTTH Council expects that 13 million people across 35 European nations will have their broadband delivered by fiber. Such services would start at a speed of 100 megabits per second (mbps), said Mr. Helsen. Around Europe more than 233 projects were underway to lay the fibers that would ________5.________ homes or buildings to the net, said Mr. Helsen. Many of those, he said, were being operated by local governments or smaller net firms. Local governments were interested in FTTH because of the economic and social ________6.________ it brought in its wake, said Mr. Helsen.

The low delay in high-speed fiber networks made ________7.________ new uses of broadband, he said. “No delay is very important,” he said, “specifically if you talk about ________8.________ that are time-dependent such as personal communications, conference calls or video calls where delays cause a lot of trouble.” While early FTTH services were ________9.________ in cities, said Mr. Helsen, many more were reaching out to rural areas for e-health and e-learning projects.

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