Greece is set to become one of Europe’s fastest-growing fiber-optic markets, with a new forecast projecting the country will rank second among 31 European markets for growth in active fiber subscriptions through 2030.
The analysis by telecommunications research firm Point Topic forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 20.8 percent for Greece’s FTTP, or Fiber to the Premises, subscribers through the end of the decade. Only Austria is expected to grow faster, with a projected annual growth rate of 22.5 percent.
If the forecast is realized, Greece could have between 2.6 million and 2.7 million active FTTP connections by 2030.
The figures point to a significant shift for a country that has historically lagged behind much of Europe in next-generation broadband infrastructure. Point Topic’s data shows that Greece’s fiber coverage was still relatively low compared with more mature European markets, leaving considerable room for both network expansion and new customer connections.
Greece’s fiber growth is accelerating
The most important part of the forecast is that it concerns active subscriptions, not simply the number of homes that can access a fiber network.
Across Europe, the next phase of the fiber rollout will increasingly depend on persuading households and businesses to switch from older technologies to FTTP.
Point Topic forecasts that FTTP subscriptions across the 31 European markets will rise from 112.4 million at the end of 2025 to 157.4 million by 2030, an increase of more than 40 percent. Greece’s projected 20.8 percent annual growth rate would place it far above the European average.
The rapid expansion partly reflects Greece’s starting point. Markets with lower fiber coverage or lower take-up rates often have greater potential for rapid growth than countries where FTTP is already widely adopted.
But recent figures from Greek telecommunications companies suggest that the predicted acceleration is already underway.
OTE adds fiber customers at a record pace
OTE, Greece’s largest telecommunications provider, reported a record 62,000 net additions to its FTTH customer base during the second quarter of 2026.
The company’s total number of FTTH subscribers reached 686,831 by the end of June, a 46 percent increase from a year earlier. Its fiber network had meanwhile passed more than 2.22 million homes.
The difference between those two figures illustrates the challenge and opportunity facing Greece’s fiber market.
Building a network that reaches a home does not mean the household has become a fiber customer. OTE said FTTH penetration within its total broadband customer base had reached nearly 29 percent, up from 20 percent a year earlier, while adoption was also rising rapidly in areas covered by its fiber network.
That growing conversion of available infrastructure into active subscriptions is likely to be central to Greece’s projected growth through 2030.
Nova passes 300,000 FTTH subscribers
Competition is also helping reshape the market. Nova said it had surpassed 300,000 FTTH subscribers during the first half of 2026, with fiber accounting for 30 percent of its customer base.
Vodafone is also expanding its fiber infrastructure, while Inalan continues to operate its own 100 percent FTTH network, particularly in Athens and Thessaloniki, with expansion extending to Crete.
Meanwhile, the Public Power Corporation, or PPC, has entered the telecommunications infrastructure market through its FiberGrid network.
From building networks to winning customers
The wider European market is also entering a new phase.
FTTP coverage across the 31 markets is expected to rise from 76 percent of households in 2025 to more than 90 percent by 2030. Yet millions of households are still expected to remain without active fiber subscriptions despite having access to a network.
That suggests Europe’s next broadband battle will not be solely about laying more fiber. It will increasingly be about price, service quality, competition and convincing consumers to move away from older broadband technologies.
For Greece, the combination of rapid infrastructure investment and accelerating customer adoption could produce one of Europe’s biggest broadband transformations over the next five years.
The country is unlikely to overtake Europe’s largest fiber markets in absolute subscriber numbers. France, for example, is forecast to remain the continent’s largest FTTP market, while the United Kingdom is expected to continue rapidly expanding its own fiber base.
But in terms of growth, Greece is now expected to be among Europe’s leaders.
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