Fiber Deployment Cost Annual Report 2025
In this report we explore the fiber deployment landscape in 2025 and look ahead to developments expected in 2026 and beyond.
Reports
The State of US Broadband Report
This biannual report on the state of US residential broadband internet availability uses the latest FCC broadband data to help telecom professionals understand trends around broadband access, construction, and expansion and the state of the Digital Divide in the United States. It can be used to support market analysis, build planning, public policy work, competitive intelligence research, due diligence, and more.
Technology-Neutral Framework for BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice
In the context of the BEAD Restructuring Policy Notice, we have developed a technology-neutral framework for SBOs to use in validating whether a project can easily scale to meet the connectivity needs of households and businesses in the project area and thus satisfy a key criterion to qualify as a Priority Broadband Project.
The Impacts of State Broadband Rate Regulation
This study, developed by Cartesian for ACA Connects, takes a detailed look at the economic impact of broadband rate regulation on investment and competition in the US.
Why Are Most Streaming Platforms Vulnerable?
Our report “Video Streaming: Why Are Most Streaming Platforms Vulnerable?” discusses why an individual would engage in media piracy, who the parties are that are most harmed by piracy, why streaming platforms are so vulnerable to these illegal activities, and what can be done about this alarming situation.
2024 Fiber Deployment Cost Annual Report
This report by the Fiber Broadband Association and Cartesian provides a detailed analysis of the evolving fiber broadband landscape in the United States, emphasizing both the significant progress made and the challenges faced by the industry.
Fibre Networks as Green Assets
This report by Cartesian for the FTTH Council Europe explores the efficiency of fibre networks and how "sustainable finance" will help Europe continue to play a role as global leader in the Digital Economy.
Is Content Piracy Inevitable?
Our report “Video Streaming Services: Is Content Leakage an Inevitable Fate?” discusses the widespread misconceptions about the effort required to prevent content piracy and the many solutions that have significant potential for improving the security of online streaming platforms and making these attacks either impossible or significantly more difficult to execute.
2023 Fiber Deployment Cost Annual Report
The Fiber Broadband Association partnered with Cartesian to research the cost of fiber deployment and provide insight on how costs are evolving over time.
US Broadband: Household Bandwidth Demand Study
A look at the changing landscape of household internet usage in the United States.
Addressing Gaps in Broadband Availability and Adoption
The digital divide is both an availability problem and an adoption problem. Approximately 12M households do not have access to 25/3 Mbps broadband service, and about 30M do not subscribe to such service when it's available.
How Consumers Access Streaming Video: The Risks of Credential Sharing
A survey report on how viewers access OTT video and attitudes towards credential sharing, and what CSPs can do to curb password sharing abuse and fraud.
Dealing with Network Transformation in a Virtualized World
Cartesian's survey report "The Future of Networks" contains insights into the state of NFV/SDN deployment and the challenges of network virtualization in the telecoms industry. Produced in collaboration with the Broadband Forum, this report distills the perspectives of senior business, technical, and operational executives from across the telecoms industry and reports on how companies are handling the biggest change the telecoms sector has seen in decades.
The Future of Broadcast Cardless Security – Revisited
A survey report about how changes in piracy and technology are affecting the implementation of conditional access systems (CAS) in the one-way broadcast network.
The Future of Mobile Video
Cartesian's mobile video report, in collaboration with Mobile World Live, provides an in-depth analysis into current and future trends of smartphone video consumption – currently the biggest traffic driver on today's mobile and Wi-Fi networks.
25 Years – A Retrospective on Innovation in the TMT Sector
Review a quarter century of innovation in the telecoms, media, and technology sector through the eyes of industry experts. Get all the articles in one eBook.
Controlling Content Access in a Borderless (Internet) World
This article delves into the challenges that content owners and distributors are facing to meet their licensing and distribution agreements and what can be done about it. Discusses geo-detection, geo-circumvention, geo-blocking, and geo-filtering. Published in M&E Journal, Winter 2016.