"Fibre To The Home" also known as FTTH is Fibre Optic cable being installed from the telephone exchange to the Home and is used to deliver communications such as broadband, digital TV and telephone.

It can be installed to replace existing copper wire which is what was/is used to originally transfer data from the telephone exchange to the home.

Fibre Optic cable is able to offer much faster speeds than copper wire and much more bandwidth than copper wires are able to cope with.

Copper wires currently installed in the UK are only able to offer broadband speeds up to a maximum of 24MB with ADSL2+ technology (currently being installed by companies such as BE Broadband). Fibre Optic allows broadband speeds of around 100MB.

The negative factor with regards to installing FTTH is the costs. For FTTH to be installed across the UK an estimate of around £10-£15 billion is expected.