The region, excluding Russia, had 5 million FTTH/B subscribers at the end of June 2011, out of a total of 28 million households. Russia added 964,000 new FTTH/B subscribers during the first half of 2011, bringing the country's total to 5.15 million subscribers.

Including Russia, Europe now has 10.2 million FTTH/B subscribers out of 39.8 million wired households, representing a 22% increase since the end of 2010.

The Baltic countries and the new European Member States have played a significant role in the growth of FTTH/B: Hungary and Ukraine are the latest countries to enter the European Council's FTTH rankings, in eleventh and sixteenth place, respectively.

The Hungarian market, with 235,055 FTTH/B subscribers and a subscriber penetration rate of 6%, is highly fragmented: several FTTH/B operators are active in the local areas. Magyar Telekom is the largest operator, with 290,000 FTTH homes wired by mid-2011 and an ambitious plan to offer up to 100 Mbps to 30% of the country's households by 2013.

Ukraine has 450,000 FTTH/B subscribers and a subscriber penetration rate of 2.2%. VimpelCom is the leading private FTTH operator in the country.  

Lithuania continues to lead the European FTTH ranking with 26.6% of households subscribed to FTTH/B, followed by Norway, Sweden, Slovenia, Russia, Slovakia, Latvia, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Denmark, in that order. Each of the top ten nations in FTTH has a penetration rate of at least 6%.

Conversely, many of Western Europe's largest economies are lagging behind; neither the UK, Germany, nor Spain appear in the ranking.
The full ranking for 2011 will be presented at the FTTH Conference, to be held in Munich from February 14–16, 2012.

Note: The European FTTH Panorama is managed by IDATE and the FTTH Council Europe. The FTTH Ranking covers all countries with at least 200,000 households where FTTH/B penetration has reached at least 1% of the total number of households. This includes FTTH, where the fiber optic connection reaches the home, and FTTB, where the fiber optic connection terminates within the boundaries of a multi-tenant building.