Broadband Status
Point Topic Comprehensive Report: Global Fixed Broadband Connections at 1.377B as of Q1-2023
Global fixed broadband connections reached 1.377 billion as of Q1-2023, up by 83 million from a year earlier and reflecting an annual growth rate of 1.59%, according to Point Topic.
There was a decline in fixed broadband subscriptions in 18 countries[1] which mainly include emerging markets, as well as some saturated markets such as Singapore. However, while there were fluctuations in growth rates across regions and markets, the overall trend indicates a steady expansion of global broadband connectivity.
Highlights:
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Among global regions, Africa, East Asia and America Other saw the fastest growth in broadband connections (2.9%, 2.2% and 1.8%), not least due to healthy increases in broadband subscribers in the vast markets of Egypt, Brazil and China.
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The share of FTTH/B in the total fixed broadband subscriptions continued to increase and stood at 66.7%. Broadband connections based on other technologies saw their market shares shrink further, with an exception of satellite and wireless (mainly FWA).
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VDSL subscriber numbers grew in ten countries, while they dropped in at least 22 markets as consumers migrated to FTTH/B.
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The highest FTTH/B broadband subscriber growth rates in Q1 2023 were in Algeria, Peru and UK.
At 21.6 million, the quarterly net adds were close to the figure we recorded a year ago, though the growth rate (1.59%) was slower, compared to 1.77% in Q1 2022, with global inflation and economic instability having an impact.
East Asia continued to dominate in Q1 2023, maintaining its position as the largest market with a 49.6% share of global fixed broadband subscribers. This substantial market share is primarily driven by China with its vast population.
In Q1 2023, broadband subscriber base grew faster in China, Hong Kong and Korea, compared to Q4 2022. As a result, the region’s net adds share globally went up from 63.2% to 68.8%. Asia Other accounted for 10.8% of the global broadband market, similarly to the previous quarter, though the region’s net adds share went down from 12.8% to 9.4%.
Europe’s market shares remained rather consistent, though Eastern Europe saw their net adds share decline from 3.4% to 0.5%, as a result of slower growth in almost all markets and the decline in broadband subscribers in Russia having an especially significant impact due to its market size.
Similarly, Americas maintained relatively stable market shares of 10.3% and 8.1% respectively, while America – Other’s net adds share increased from 7.8% to 9%, driven by higher growth in such sizeable markets as Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile, to name a few.
Next Point Topic looks at fixed broadband penetration among population, comparing it to growth rates across the regions.
Africa and Asia Other continue to have relatively low fixed broadband penetration rates among their populations. In Q1 2023, this metric in Africa stood at 4.6%, while Asia Other reached 5.6%. These figures indicate the potential for future expansion in these regions. Not surprisingly, Africa also recorded the highest quarterly growth rate of 2.9%.
The markets of East Asia and America Other followed closely with growth rates of 2.2% and 1.8% respectively, despite East Asia already having the highest population penetration at 41.9%. This reflects a widespread adoption of fixed broadband services in East Asia, while America Other showcases steady growth in a region with significant potential, where broadband penetration is among the lowest, at 17.2%.
Eastern Europe displayed a modest growth rate of 0.2% with a population penetration of 24.8%. Some markets in this region still have a lot of headspace when it comes to broadband adoption but the growth was sluggish, likely due to economic pressures. Other European regions showed a slightly higher growth rate, with Europe Other at 0.5%, coupled with the second highest population penetration of 39.4%. These figures indicate a mature market with limited growth opportunities.
Among the largest twenty broadband markets all but one saw fixed broadband subscribers grow in Q1 2023, although in ten of them the growth was slower than in the Q4 2022. There was a slight drop in broadband subscribers in Russia which is under international sanctions.
The less saturated broadband markets of India, Egypt, Brazil and Mexico recorded the highest quarterly growth rates in Q1 2023, all higher than 2%. China recorded an above 2% growth as well. At the other end of the spectrum, the mature markets of Germany, France, Japan, UK, and Italy saw modest growth rates at below 0.5%. At the same time, Italy was among the countries that saw one of the largest improvements in growth rates, from -0.44% in Q4 2022 to 0.04% in Q1 2023, as its GDP growth also went from negative to positive in that period[2]. Mexico, China and Brazil recorded the largest improvements in their growth rates, at +1.14.%, +0.52% and +0.41% respectively.
Between Q4 2022 and Q1 2023, the share of FTTH/B connections in the total fixed broadband subscriptions went up by 0.7% and stood at 66.7%. Broadband connections based on other technologies saw their market shares shrink further, with an exception of satellite and wireless (mainly FWA), which remained stable.
FTTx (mainly VDSL) share stood at 6.7%[3]. VDSL subscriber numbers grew in ten countries (including modest quarterly increase in the large VDSL markets of Turkey, Czech Republic, Greece and Germany, for example), while they fell in 22 other markets as consumers migrated to FTTH/B.
It remains to be seen whether consumers will continue to gravitate toward fibre broadband offerings, particularly as global economies face potential slowdown and inflationary pressures.
In terms of FTTH/B broadband net additions in Q1 2023, China continued to maintain a significant lead with 13.5 million while Brazil added 1.4 million. Mexico is back in the top ten league, having pushed out Argentina this quarter.
Satellite broadband also saw a modest growth of 1.3% while wireless broadband demonstrated continued relevance with a respectable growth rate of 4.9%. These trends can be attributed to the demand for connectivity in remote or underserved areas where traditional broadband infrastructure is not feasible.
The diverse growth rates among different broadband technologies highlight the dynamic nature of the industry as consumers seek more reliable and high-speed connections. The significant increase in FTTH/B connections and the growth of satellite and wireless broadband underline the ongoing efforts to bridge the digital divide and ensure connectivity for all.
The top ten countries by fixed broadband subscribers remained unchanged (Figure 5). As of Q1 2023, China exceeded 0.6 billion fixed broadband subscribers, having added 14.6 million in the quarter. Also, the country is approaching 1.2 billion 5G subscribers, with the service now being used by 84% of the population.
Overall, the latest fixed broadband subscriber data reveals a clear trend towards advanced, high-speed broadband solutions like FTTH/B, while older technologies such as copper-based broadband (ADSL and VDSL) are experiencing a decline, suggesting that the broadband landscape is continuously evolving to meet the growing demand for faster and more reliable connectivity.
References:
https://www.point-topic.com/post/global-broadband-subscriptions-q1-2023
Point Topic: Global Broadband Tariff Benchmark Report- 2Q-2022
Point Topic: Global fixed broadband connections up 1.7% in 1Q-2022, FTTH at 58% market share
SDFI: Denmark Achieves 94.5% Gigabit Broadband Internet Coverage
New data from the Broadband Mapping 2023 report by the Danish Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency (SDFI) reveals that 97.5% of homes and businesses in Denmark now have access to high-speed broadband internet access.
The latest report from the Styrelsen for Dataforsyning og Infrastruktur (SDFI) sheds light on Denmark’s regional broadband coverage rates. The Region North Jutland has almost reached a 100 percent coverage rate.
According to the report, the coverage rate in Northern Jutland stands at an impressive 98.9%. Central Jutland closely follows with 97.7% coverage, while Southern Denmark boasts a coverage rate of 98.3%t. Zealand, the country’s largest island, achieves a solid coverage rate of 98%.
Although the country has made progress in digital connectivity, according to SDFI, there are still regional disparities in coverage. The Capital Region of Hovedstaden lags behind the other regions with a coverage rate of 96.2% (compared to Northern Jutland with 98.9%). Further, 94.5% of all households in Denmark can access Gigabit speeds, an increase of 2.6 percentage points year-on-year.
The report highlights the ongoing efforts of telecommunications companies in deploying broadband across the country. According to SDFI, 97.5% of homes and businesses currently can access fast broadband with speeds of at least 100 Mbps download and 30 Mbps upload. Moreover, 94.5% of users have access to gigabit speeds, representing a 2.6 percent increase from last year.
The findings of the SDFI report demonstrate Denmark’s commitment to improving broadband infrastructure and connectivity nationwide. As the country continues to prioritize digital transformation, it will pave the way for a more connected and digitally empowered society.
References:
https://www.commsupdate.com/articles/2023/06/30/95-of-danish-households-covered-by-gigabit-speeds/
https://telecomtalk.info/denmark-achieves-945percent-gigabit-broadband-coverage-sdfi/727153/
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/node/9828/printable/pdf
OpenVault: U.S. broadband users on 1-Gig tiers climbed to 26% in Q4 2022
The 4Q22 edition of the OpenVault Broadband Insights (OVBI) report indicates that average household broadband consumption neared 600 GB per month, the percentage of subscribers on gigabit tiers more than doubled, and usage by participants in the FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) continued to outpace that of the general population. OpenVault expects household data usage to surpass 600GB by Q4 2023 and possibly reach 1 terabyte by the end of 2028.
Editor’s Note: OpenVault bases its findings on data from “millions” of individual broadband subscribers that are collected and aggregated from a software-as-a-service broadband service management tool in use by a wide range of ISPs. The data is used to pinpoint usage patterns, including the differences between two key categories: subscribers on flat-rate billing (FRB) plans that offer unlimited data usage and those on usage-based billing (UBB) plans, on which subscribers are billed based on their bandwidth consumption. OpenVault data is used for benchmarking purposes by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in specific comparative analyses.
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With broadband consumption on the rise, there’s been an increase in “power users” – households that use more than 1TB of data per month. The percentage of users at that level rose 18.7% year-over-year. “Super power users” – those consuming 2TB or more per month – climbed 25%, from 2.7% to 3.4%. That’s a nearly 30x increase within the past five years, OpenVault said.
- European average data usage (268.1 GB) grew 12.5% from a year ago, a faster pace than the North American annual growth rate of 9.4%.
- North American median data usage (396.6 GB) was more than 2.5x that of European median data usage (148.2 GB) in 4Q22, a slightly smaller difference than observed in 4Q21.
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The percentage of U.S. broadband subs on 1-Gig (or higher speed) tiers climbed to 26% in Q4 2022, more than double the 12.2% observed in the year-ago period, OpenVault. As broadband speeds increase, the percentage of broadband customers provisioned for speeds of 200 Mbit/s or less is on the decline – 31% at the end of 2022, down 43% year-over-year, OpenVault found. Adoption of gigabit speeds has jumped significantly among Usage Based Billing (UBB) subscribers, increasing to almost 35% in 4Q22 from 13.4% in 4Q21.
OpenVault found that average data usage in households on the FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Plan (ACP) continues to outpace the field. In Q4, average usage in ACP households was 688.7GB, 17% higher than the broader average of 586.7GB. OpenVault has observed that some households in the ACP program use the funds to upgrade to faster speed packages.
References:
https://openvault.com/resources/ovbi/ (register to download the report)
OpenVault: Broadband data usage surges as 1-Gig adoption climbs to 15.4% of wireline subscribers
Ookla: Fixed Broadband Speeds Increasing Faster than Mobile: 28.4% vs 16.8%
MoffettNathanson: 87.4% of available U.S. homes have broadband; Leichtman Research: 90% of U.S. homes have internet
Alaska Communications uses XGS-PON, FWA, DSL in ~5K homes including Fairbanks and North Pole
That build was funded, in part, through the Connect America Fund II (CAF II) program.
“While we consider fiber to be the gold standard, Alaska’s vast geography, weather conditions and existing middle mile network infrastructure make it hard to deploy a one-size-fits all technology,” the spokesperson said in the email.
Fixed wireless also underlies a project completed in 2022 that made gigabit service available to more than 1,200 homes at Fort Wainwright.
“Our network upgrades on Fort Wainwright use fiber-fed mesh wireless as the last mile delivery,” the spokesperson explained. “Our mesh networks use fiber and radios to create a redundant mesh of connectivity around the customer. We selected mesh because it’s fast to deploy, gives the customer a fiber-like experience and allows rapid deployment on military installations.”
The backhaul infrastructure underlying the Alaska Communications network expansion also used a wide spectrum of technologies.
On one end of the spectrum, the XGS-PON deployment is supported by the company’s core packet switched and optical transport networks. At the other end of the spectrum for lower-speed deployments, the company in “minimal cases” uses bonded copper for backhaul, the spokesperson said. For some of those lower-speed deployments, the company also relies on a combination of fixed wireless and fiber.
Interestingly, Alaska Communications fiber installations use a combination of aerial and buried cable. The use of buried cable is a bit of a surprise, recognizing that the ground in Alaska is frozen solid for a considerable portion of the year.
The company plans further expansion into the Interior in 2023 and beyond, according to a press release about the broadband expansion.
Fort Wainwright family housing equipped with an Alaska Communications receiver. Mesh networks use fiber and radios to create a redundant mesh of connectivity around the customer. (Photo: Business Wire)
Contact:
Heather Marron, Manager, Corporate Communications
[email protected]
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DZS Inc: 2023 Telecom Trends & Applications Changing the Broadband Industry
by Geoff Burke, DZS Inc. (a global provider of access networking infrastructure, service assurance and consumer experience software solutions). Edited by Alan J Weissberger
There are a handful of significant trends that will emerge over the next several months as service providers navigate their transformation and seek to find their Competitive EDGE. This post will focus on the increasing shift to multi-gigabit services, the growing importance of the network edge and how service providers are being transformed into “experience providers..
- Multi-Gigabit Broadband Services are Becoming the New Standard – The shift to gigabit services was both widespread and well suited for Gigabit Passive Optical Networking (GPON) However, new advanced applications will require symmetrical multi-gigabit speeds. The proliferation of multiple devices using these bandwidth-hungry apps is pushing service providers to begin to think 10 gig services and beyond for both business and residential services. The emergence of the metaverse, with Ultra High Definition (UHD) Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality/Extended Reality (AR/VR/XR) and gaming applications will continue push these boundaries.
- The Network Edge Continues to Rise as a Strategic Location – The rise of 10 Gigabit Symmetrical (XGS)-PON and multi-gigabit services that support the above mentioned applications and more is creating new challenges in the network – especially as these apps require symmetrical bandwidth. Service providers realize that they must push equipment as close to the subscriber as possible to optimize traffic management, but also to minimize latency, which is becoming increasingly important in the world of the metaverse and AR/VR/XR apps. Additionally, leveraging intelligence at the edge moves it closer to where data is actually created and consumed and where the subscriber experience is defined giving service providers increased agility in monitoring, managing and optimizing performance.
- Service Providers are Rapidly Transforming into Experience Providers – As the network becomes increasingly software defined and intelligent equipment is deployed closer to the edge, the ability for carriers to both gather meaningful information that can reflect and provide actionable insights into user experience grows dramatically. As a result, the concept of a true “experience provider” is emerging where subscriber problems can be anticipated and proactively addressed, and user needs can be addressed remotely and immediately in an extraordinarily personalized manner. This transformation is proving to have profound impacts on carrier performance, with dramatically reduced churn, faster responsiveness, better performance, and higher Average Revenue Per User (ARPU).
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DZS Inc says these Applications are Changing the Broadband Industry:
- Connected Home: WiFi everywhere
- Connected Business: Passive Optical LAN
- MDUs: delivering multi-gigabit services
- Multi-gigabit services: they are becoming a major source of differentiation for service providers
References:
https://dzsi.com/resources/blog/the-broadband-trends-that-will-define-2023-part-1/
MoffettNathanson: 87.4% of available U.S. homes have broadband; Leichtman Research: 90% of U.S. homes have internet
When the FCC announced the November 18th release date for their long-awaited broadband mapping update, reflecting location-specific broadband availability as of June 2022, analysts at MoffettNathanson thought it would contain information on how many of U.S. homes have access to broadband and how many are too rural and are therefore unserved. However, that FCC release didn’t offer the numbers they needed, and the market research fim didn’t
have the necessary information to calculate it themselves.
In the underlying FCC datasets, which are provided for public download, each location served by a given technology or provider is a separate entry. One location is equivalent to one street address. But many street addresses in the U.S. correspond to multiple living units, and the number of units per location is not publicly available (the location fabric used by the FCC was contracted to a third party, CostQuest Associates, and that fabric is provided only to the FCC, broadband providers, state/local government entities, and select other interested parties). With approximately 31% of residences in multifamily homes, according to a 2019 survey by the Census Bureau, the number of units per location was, as of the November 18th release, a crucial missing piece for any meaningful coverage analysis we could do on our own.
Principal Analyst Craig Moffett wrote:
The FCC’s new maps of broadband availability can tell us coverage for residential locations or business locations, but not the combined total. The companies we cover sometimes break out residential and commercial, but not always. [As an aside, about half of small businesses in the U.S. are actually operated out of peoples’ homes, but hopefully this, at least, doesn’t introduce further distortion, since we are presumably still seeing just one subscription for one location]. So we’ll do our best to make sure we’re matching numerator and denominator by specifying whether we’re looking at all locations or residential locations only.
The FCC’s coverage data also doesn’t distinguish between occupied and vacant units. For our calculation of penetration, we’d want to exclude most vacant units, since vacant units don’t need broadband. Excluding all vacant units likely understates the denominator, though; for example, some second homes (which are treated as vacant) may have year-round broadband subscriptions. The best we can do is assume the coverage of total units is the same as the coverage of occupied units, and that vacant units with broadband subscriptions are negligible.
The FCC does report service coverage for satellite and fixed wireless. But some of those FWA subscribers are in areas where there’s no access to wired broadband, while others are in areas where wired broadband is available. Naturally, the companies won’t tell us how many of each there are. So we’ll just have to leave them all out. We’ll focus just on the availability of wired broadband.
Editor’s Note: The FCC broadband map for my address show a Licensed Fixed Wireless operator serves my condo. It’s California Internet with symmetrical 1G upstream/1G downstream. Also, there are two Satellite providers – Hughes Network Systems, LLC 25M/3M and Space X 350M/40M. Wired internet is available from AT&T and Comcast.
We’d really want to know how many DSL subscribers are in each of those different cohorts. But the
companies we cover don’t report how many of their DSL subscribers are in areas where there is
also a cable or fiber operator, and how many are in areas where DSL is the only option. The first
group is at risk. The second group is not. So, we’ll just have to include all DSL.
According to the FCC’s current estimates, wired broadband (defined as anything over 200 kbps downstream and 200 kbps upstream) was available to 93.7% of residential units in America as of June 30, 2022. Again, we don’t know the percentage of occupied housing units with wired broadband available, but let’s assume it’s the same. And we don’t know the number of residential units in the location fabric, so we’ll use the Census Bureau’s estimate of 128.1M occupied housing units in the U.S. Given these assumptions, we estimate wired broadband was available to around 120.0M occupied housing units as of June 30, 2022. With, by our count, an estimated 104.9M residential wired broadband subscriptions in America in Q2 2022 – again, including DSL, and sometimes including commercial as well as residential subscribers – that translates into penetration of 87.4% of broadband-available homes. We estimate that 81.5% of all households subscribe to wired broadband.
Craig’s Conclusions:
The goal for the FCC is to create maps that are not frozen in time but instead become living and breathing reflections of a dynamic marketplace. The new maps are subject to a public challenge process, enabling interested parties, including operators, local governments, and even individual would-be subscribers, to dispute reported availability. Challenges will eventually be part of a routine updating process. Indeed, the maps released in November were the product of what had already been a months-long initial challenge process. The maps are, again, a critical input to distribution of $42.5 billion of funds earmarked for rural broadband by the JOBS/Infrastructure Act. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is required by law to use the FCC’s new map to distribute those funds in what is referred to as the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, something they have committed to do by June 2023. They are likely to begin that process almost immediately, based on the number of unserved locations in each state, although NTIA chief Alan Davidson has said they will wait for the FCC to release the second version of its coverage map, later this year, before they actually begin to disburse those funds.
The network operators themselves, including the cable operators in particular, will in our view be major participants in the BEAD process, bidding aggressively to bring broadband to unserved census blocks on the periphery of their current franchise areas.
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Meanwhile, Leichtman Research Group indicates that 90 per cent of U.S. households get an Internet service at home, compared to 84 per cent in 2017, and 74 per cent in 2007. Broadband accounts for 99 per cent of households with an Internet service at home, and 89 per cent of all households get a broadband Internet service – an increase from 82 per cent in 2017, and 53 per cent in 2007.
These findings are based on a survey of 1,910 households from throughout the United States and are part of a new LRG study, Broadband Internet in the U.S. 2022. This is LRG’s twentieth annual study on this topic.
Other related findings include:
- Individuals ages 65+ account for 34% of those that do not get an Internet service at home
- 56% of broadband subscribers are very satisfied (8-10 on a 1-10 scale) with their Internet service at home, while 6% are not satisfied (1-3).
- 44% of broadband subscribers do not know the download speed of their service – compared to 60% in 2017
- 61% reporting Internet speeds of >100 Mbps are very satisfied with their service, compared to 41% with speeds <50 Mbps, and 57% that do not know their speed
- 40% of broadband households get a bundle of services from a single provider – compared to 64% in 2017, and 78% in 2012
- 59% of adults with an Internet service at home watch video online daily – compared to 59% in 2020, 43% in 2017, and 17% in 2012
“The percentage of households getting an Internet service at home, including high-speed broadband, is higher than in any previous year,” said Bruce Leichtman, president and principal analyst for Leichtman Research Group, Inc. “Computer usage and knowledge remain the foundation for Internet services in the home. Among those that do not get an Internet service at home, 58% also do not use a computer at home..”
References:
https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home
https://www.leichtmanresearch.com/90-of-u-s-households-get-an-internet-service-at-home/
Ookla Ranks Internet Performance in the World’s Largest Cities: China is #1
Internet connectivity benchmarking firm Ookla, which maintains the popular Speedtest.net service, has updated their ranking of broadband performance in countries around the world to include internet speed rankings for some of the “world’s largest cities.” Ookla’s new list ranks median internet download speeds in nearly 200 cities all over the world.
Overall, China topped the list with Shanghai as the fastest city on their list for mobile broadband with a median download speed of 158.63Mbps (24.32Mbps upload and 17ms latency), while Beijing was fastest for fixed broadband during September 2022 at 238.86Mbps (37.75Mbps upload and 7ms latency).
Beijing (China) and Valparaiso (Chile) were ranked highest in the fixed broadband category, with average speeds of 239 Mbps and 223 Mbps, respectively, followed by Shanghai (222 Mbps), New York (218 Mbps), Bangkok (217 Mbps) and Madrid (197 Mbps).
Fastest Broadband Speeds for the World’s Largest Cities 2022
| Fastest Cities for Mobile (Mbps) | Fastest Cities for Fixed Broadband (Mbps) | ||
| Shanghai, China | 158.63 | Beijing, China | 238.86 |
| Copenhagen, Denmark | 157.54 | Valparaíso, Chile | 222.67 |
| Oslo, Norway | 155.19 | Shanghai, China | 221.85 |
| Busan, South Korea | 147.55 | New York, United States | 218.04 |
| Beijing, China | 145.76 | Bangkok, Thailand | 217.19 |
| Sofia, Bulgaria | 145.28 | Madrid, Spain | 196.7 |
| Ar-Rayyan, Qatar | 140.69 | Bucharest, Romania | 195.6 |
| Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 137.48 | Lyon, France | 193.34 |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 135.52 | Chon Buri, Thailand | 188.25 |
| Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 133.65 | Tokyo, Japan | 185.04 |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 126.4 | Los Angeles, United States | 184.15 |
| Antwerp, Belgium | 121.33 | Geneva, Switzerland | 182.84 |
| Gothenburg, Sweden | 120.71 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | 178.17 |
| Doha, Qatar | 114 | Zürich, Switzerland | 177.6 |
| Seoul, South Korea | 113.36 | Santiago, Chile | 176.58 |
| Melbourne (Greater), Australia | 111.78 | Copenhagen, Denmark | 175.31 |
| Sydney, Australia | 108.04 | Barcelona, Spain | 173.71 |
| New York, United States | 106.57 | Osaka, Japan | 169.18 |
| Rotterdam, Netherlands | 100.85 | Toronto, Canada | 164.93 |
| Skopje, North Macedonia | 99.02 | Paris, France | 155.24 |
| Toronto, Canada | 98.29 | Auckland, New Zealand | 149.22 |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | 96.79 | Budapest, Hungary | 147.82 |
| Los Angeles, United States | 95.4 | Taipei, Taiwan | 144.35 |
| Zürich, Switzerland | 89.17 | Kraków, Poland | 138.75 |
| Montreal, Canada | 84.25 | Warsaw, Poland | 138.64 |
| Helsinki, Finland | 83.57 | São Paulo, Brazil | 124.05 |
| Zagreb, Croatia | 82.36 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 118.99 |
| Muscat, Oman | 79.66 | New Taipei, Taiwan | 115.36 |
| Auckland, New Zealand | 77.91 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 111.29 |
| Lisbon, Portugal | 76.23 | Porto, Portugal | 110.91 |
| Manama, Bahrain | 72.72 | Stockholm, Sweden | 109.59 |
| Kuwait City, Kuwait | 72.61 | Haifa, Israel | 108.46 |
| Porto, Portugal | 72.16 | Seoul, South Korea | 106.48 |
| Paris, France | 72.12 | Chisinau, Moldova | 105.05 |
| Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | 71.92 | Panama City, Panama | 104.25 |
| Geneva, Switzerland | 70.88 | Oslo, Norway | 102.76 |
| Berlin, Germany | 70.02 | Montevideo, Uruguay | 102.57 |
| Vilnius, Lithuania | 67.7 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 100.49 |
| Manchester, United Kingdom | 67.07 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 99.66 |
| London, United Kingdom | 66.36 | Milan, Italy | 98.57 |
| Taipei, Taiwan | 65.18 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 95.39 |
| Vienna, Austria | 65.08 | Kuwait City, Kuwait | 94.65 |
| New Taipei, Taiwan | 64.69 | Medellín, Colombia | 94.48 |
| Brussels, Belgium | 58.78 | Busan, South Korea | 94.43 |
| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 58.64 | Bogotá, Colombia | 94.38 |
| Athens, Greece | 57.23 | Vilnius, Lithuania | 94.28 |
| Hamburg, Germany | 56.77 | Ar-Rayyan, Qatar | 94.16 |
| São Paulo, Brazil | 56.58 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | 93.71 |
| Thessaloniki, Greece | 56.57 | Lisbon, Portugal | 93.13 |
| Lyon, France | 56.08 | Dublin, Ireland | 91.63 |
| Prague, Czechia | 55.25 | Moscow, Russia | 91.26 |
| Belgrade, Serbia | 53.27 | Riga, Latvia | 91.14 |
| Bucharest, Romania | 52.03 | Montreal, Canada | 90.06 |
| Osaka, Japan | 51.53 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 89.38 |
| Milan, Italy | 51.27 | Vienna, Austria | 88.05 |
| Budapest, Hungary | 49.88 | Belgrade, Serbia | 87.88 |
| Tokyo, Japan | 49.86 | Antwerp, Belgium | 87.17 |
| Riga, Latvia | 45.88 | Berlin, Germany | 86.65 |
| Kraków, Poland | 44.42 | Doha, Qatar | 86.62 |
| Warsaw, Poland | 43.48 | Hamburg, Germany | 85.35 |
| Barcelona, Spain | 42.88 | Johor Bahru, Malaysia | 85.03 |
| Rabat, Morocco | 41.98 | Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel | 84.96 |
| Madrid, Spain | 40.78 | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 84.32 |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 40.38 | Helsinki, Finland | 84.11 |
| Hanoi, Vietnam | 40.01 | Saint Petersburg, Russia | 83.33 |
| Rome, Italy | 40 | Amman, Jordan | 80.37 |
| Dublin, Ireland | 39.96 | Kiev, Ukraine | 77.42 |
| Bangkok, Thailand | 39.3 | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | 76.81 |
| Haifa, Israel | 39.05 | Davao City, Philippines | 75.23 |
| Chon Buri, Thailand | 39.03 | Asuncion, Paraguay | 74.18 |
| Baku, Azerbaijan | 37.12 | London, United Kingdom | 73.93 |
| Tbilisi, Georgia | 37.08 | Hanoi, Vietnam | 73.67 |
| Chisinau, Moldova | 36.3 | Sofia, Bulgaria | 73.66 |
| Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 36.09 | Manila, Philippines | 73.47 |
| Johor Bahru, Malaysia | 35.67 | Manchester, United Kingdom | 73.43 |
| Cape Town, South Africa | 35.42 | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | 73.2 |
| Ankara, Turkey | 35.27 | Brussels, Belgium | 71.71 |
| Montevideo, Uruguay | 34.82 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 71.41 |
| Istanbul, Turkey | 34.7 | Muscat, Oman | 69.46 |
| Tehran, Iran | 34.24 | Az-Zarqa, Jordan | 67.53 |
| Guadalajara, Mexico | 32.77 | Kharkiv, Ukraine | 67.05 |
| Mashhad, Iran | 32.71 | Rome, Italy | 64.92 |
| Beirut, Lebanon | 32.35 | Zagreb, Croatia | 63.92 |
| Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel | 31.69 | Delhi, India | 63.2 |
| Kharkiv, Ukraine | 31.06 | San José, Costa Rica | 61.44 |
| Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) | 30.98 | Prague, Czechia | 60.67 |
| Casablanca, Morocco | 30.84 | Mexico City, Mexico | 59.56 |
| Mosul, Iraq | 30.77 | Minsk, Belarus | 59.14 |
| Sfax, Tunisia | 30.74 | Maracaibo, Venezuela | 57.31 |
| Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 30.1 | Guadalajara, Mexico | 55.63 |
| Kingston, Jamaica | 29.89 | Lima, Peru | 53.68 |
| Moscow, Russia | 29.74 | Sydney, Australia | 53.64 |
| Baghdad, Iraq | 29.62 | Melbourne (Greater), Australia | 53.45 |
| Mexico City, Mexico | 28.28 | Arequipa, Peru | 53.4 |
| Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) | 28.21 | Gomel, Belarus | 52.91 |
| Samarkand, Uzbekistan | 28.2 | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | 52.79 |
| Vientiane, Laos | 28.15 | Kathmandu, Nepal | 52.68 |
| Kiev, Ukraine | 28.15 | Guayaquil, Ecuador | 51.87 |
| Guatemala City, Guatemala | 27.89 | Johannesburg, South Africa | 51.79 |
| Buenos Aires, Argentina | 26.49 | Córdoba, Argentina | 51.67 |
| Almaty, Kazakhstan | 26.44 | Alexandria, Egypt | 51.07 |
| Manila, Philippines | 26.16 | Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan | 50.05 |
| Tunis, Tunisia | 25.87 | Skopje, North Macedonia | 48.09 |
| Córdoba, Argentina | 25.3 | Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | 47.85 |
| Valparaíso, Chile | 24.16 | Manama, Bahrain | 47.69 |
| Yerevan, Armenia | 23.98 | Quito, Ecuador | 47.36 |
| Tegucigalpa, Honduras | 23.93 | Almaty, Kazakhstan | 47.21 |
| Luanda, Angola | 23.93 | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 46.27 |
| San Pedro Sula, Honduras | 23.83 | Kingston, Jamaica | 45.75 |
| Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | 23.81 | Thessaloniki, Greece | 44.35 |
| Santiago De Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic | 23.64 | Mumbai, India | 43.56 |
| Saint Petersburg, Russia | 21.19 | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | 43.14 |
| San Salvador, El Salvador | 20.58 | Managua, Nicaragua | 42.68 |
| Alexandria, Egypt | 20.46 | Dhaka, Bangladesh | 40.38 |
| Cairo, Egypt | 20.43 | Yerevan, Armenia | 40.34 |
| Az-Zarqa, Jordan | 20.4 | Athens, Greece | 40 |
| Davao City, Philippines | 20.35 | Cape Town, South Africa | 39.5 |
| Amman, Jordan | 20.13 | Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire | 38.44 |
| Kampala, Uganda | 20.01 | Ankara, Turkey | 37.42 |
| Santiago, Chile | 19.87 | Istanbul, Turkey | 36.75 |
| Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan | 19.79 | Libreville, Gabon | 36.13 |
| Phnom Penh, Cambodia | 18.94 | Tegucigalpa, Honduras | 33.55 |
| Quito, Ecuador | 18.89 | Antananarivo, Madagascar | 33.34 |
| Lagos, Nigeria | 18.85 | Chittagong, Bangladesh | 33.02 |
| Managua, Nicaragua | 18.64 | Lome, Togo | 31.97 |
| Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | 18.37 | Samarkand, Uzbekistan | 31.58 |
| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | 17.29 | San Pedro Sula, Honduras | 31.53 |
| Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire | 17.22 | San Salvador, El Salvador | 31.36 |
| San José, Costa Rica | 17.21 | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | 30.87 |
| Nairobi, Kenya | 17.09 | Pointe-Noire, Congo | 30.11 |
| Colombo, Sri Lanka | 16.95 | Guatemala City, Guatemala | 29.53 |
| Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 16.69 | Vientiane, Laos | 29.04 |
| Guayaquil, Ecuador | 16.6 | Accra, Ghana | 28.71 |
| Bekasi, Indonesia | 16.47 | Baku, Azerbaijan | 28.69 |
| Misrata, Libya | 16.46 | Brazzaville, Congo | 27.55 |
| South Jakarta, Indonesia | 16.14 | Bekasi, Indonesia | 27.04 |
| Dakar, Senegal | 16.13 | South Jakarta, Indonesia | 27 |
| Asuncion, Paraguay | 15.93 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia | 26.28 |
| Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | 15.8 | Tbilisi, Georgia | 26.12 |
| Panama City, Panama | 15.75 | Bamako, Mali | 24.37 |
| Oran, Algeria | 15.57 | Dakar, Senegal | 23.41 |
| Lahore, Pakistan | 15.01 | La Paz, Bolivia | 23.25 |
| Delhi, India | 14.99 | Cairo, Egypt | 22.42 |
| Dhaka, Bangladesh | 14.98 | Nouakchott, Mauritania | 21.75 |
| Kathmandu, Nepal | 14.94 | Baghdad, Iraq | 21.58 |
| Lima, Peru | 14.65 | Casablanca, Morocco | 20.23 |
| Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 14.51 | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | 19.78 |
| Arequipa, Peru | 13.5 | Dushanbe, Tajikistan | 19.61 |
| Algiers, Algeria | 13.49 | Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) | 19.37 |
| Damascus, Syria | 12.83 | Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) | 19.03 |
| Tripoli, Libya | 12.36 | Rabat, Morocco | 17.57 |
| Mumbai, India | 12.29 | Colombo, Sri Lanka | 16.65 |
| Bogotá, Colombia | 11.99 | Cotonou, Benin | 15.97 |
| Karachi, Pakistan | 11.92 | Karachi, Pakistan | 14.82 |
| Minsk, Belarus | 11.33 | Port-au-Prince, Haiti | 14.7 |
| La Paz, Bolivia | 10.76 | Luanda, Angola | 14.18 |
| Khartoum, Sudan | 10.66 | Mombasa, Kenya | 14.08 |
| Medellín, Colombia | 10.4 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 13.74 |
| Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia | 10.07 | Mosul, Iraq | 12.43 |
| Sana’a, Yemen | 9.96 | Lagos, Nigeria | 12.22 |
| Aleppo, Syria | 9.18 | Oran, Algeria | 12.09 |
| Chittagong, Bangladesh | 8.84 | Tehran, Iran | 11.9 |
| Dushanbe, Tajikistan | 8.83 | Algiers, Algeria | 11.87 |
| Gomel, Belarus | 8.72 | Santiago De Los Caballeros, Dominican Republic | 11.71 |
| Maracaibo, Venezuela | 7.75 | Lahore, Pakistan | 10.88 |
| Caracas, Venezuela | 7.16 | Kampala, Uganda | 10.6 |
| Accra, Ghana | 6.41 | Kigali, Rwanda | 9.65 |
| Kabul, Afghanistan | 5.15 | Nairobi, Kenya | 9.58 |
| Port-au-Prince, Haiti | 4.82 | Lusaka, Zambia | 9.12 |
| Havana, Cuba | 4.51 | Tunis, Tunisia | 8.54 |
North America
- United States: T-Mobile was the fastest mobile operator with a median download speed of 116.14 Mbps. Spectrum was fastest for fixed broadband at 211.66 Mbps.
- Canada: TELUS was the fastest mobile operator in Canada with a median download speed of 76.03 Mbps. Rogers was fastest for fixed broadband (223.89 Mbps).
- Mexico: Telcel had the fastest median download speed over mobile at 36.07 Mbps. Totalplay was fastest for fixed broadband at 74.64 Mbps.
Europe
- Albania: Vodafone was the fastest mobile operator with a median download speed of 46.75 Mbps. Digicom was fastest for fixed broadband at 77.83 Mbps.
- Belgium: Telenet had the fastest median download speed over fixed broadband at 126.79 Mbps.
- Denmark: YouSee was the fastest mobile operator in Denmark with a median download speed of 118.32 Mbps. Fastspeed was fastest for fixed broadband at 270.80 Mbps.
- Estonia: The fastest operator in Estonia was Telia with a median download speed of 72.95 Mbps. Elisa was fastest over fixed broadband at 84.09 Mbps.
- Finland: DNA had the fastest median download speed over mobile at 74.65 Mbps. Lounea was fastest for fixed broadband at 103.79 Mbps.
- Germany: Telekom was the fastest mobile operator in Germany with a median download speed of 78.85 Mbps. Vodafone was fastest for fixed broadband at 112.58 Mbps.
- Latvia: LMT had the fastest median download speed over mobile at 63.59 Mbps. Balticom was fastest for fixed broadband at 203.31 Mbps.
- Lithuania: The operator with the fastest median download speed was Telia with 102.09 Mbps. Cgates was fastest for fixed broadband at 131.63 Mbps.
- Poland: Orange had the fastest median download speed over mobile at 43.02 Mbps. UPC was fastest for fixed broadband at 206.22 Mbps.
- Turkey: Turkcell was the fastest mobile operator in Turkey with a median download speed of 51.92 Mbps. TurkNet was fastest for fixed broadband at 50.94 Mbps.
References:
https://www.ookla.com/articles/global-index-cities-announcement
UK Struggles in Ranking of World’s Fastest Cities for Broadband
Point Topic: Global Broadband Tariff Benchmark Report- 2Q-2022
In the twelve months to the close of Q2 2022, global residential fixed line broadband subscribers saw their average monthly charges decrease by 4% on copper, cable and fiber-based tariffs. Across the three technologies the average bandwidth increased by 22% year-on-year (y-o-y), due to the increased innovation and proliferation of fiber-based networks globally. Business subscribers continued to struggle with rising monthly charges, with the average monthly charge increasing by 12% and the average downstream speed standing at 426 Mbps compared to residential tariff averages of 464 Mbps.
The Asia-Pacific region retained its dominant bandwidth position with average speeds of 1,146 Mbps, up from 1,355 Mbps in Q4 2021 and 1,135 Mbps y-o-y, followed by North America, Western Europe, and Southeast Asia with the three regions reaching a combined average of around 465 Mbps.
Qatar, Switzerland and Southeast Asian countries still remain at the top of the league by average bandwidth along Italy, France and Bulgaria; these countries all rank in the top ten cheapest for residential broadband in terms of average cost per Mbps being less than $0.10 PPP.
In Q2 2022, the combined average download bandwidth grew by 20% compared to Q2 2021 and stood at 426 Mbps. This was caused by the boost in the average speed over cable and especially fibre, 14% and 22% respectively. Copper maintained largely the same average download speed compared to the previous quarter. However, the overall global average monthly cost across the three technologies has increased by just over 12% from $217 PPP to $244 PPP at the close of Q2 2022
References:
Global Broadband Tariff Benchmark Report, Q2 2022 (point-topic.com)
USTelecom Broadband Pricing Index (BPI): substantial price reductions for broadband access
While U.S. inflation in 2022 has soared to a 40+ year high (at 8.6% YoY), the price of broadband internet access is still falling and consumers are getting even more for less.
USTelecom’s latest analysis of the broadband marketplace: 2022 Broadband Pricing Index (BPI). This year’s report finds pricing for the most popular and highest-speed broadband internet services continues to decline while value continues to increase. The research compares prices over two time periods: the year-over-year price difference from 2021-2022; and a longer-term view of price changes between 2015 and 2022.
The third installment of the USTelecom Broadband Pricing Index (BPI) reveals continued substantial price reductions for both the most popular and highest-speed broadband internet services.
As in previous years, the BPI uses FCC and other public data sources to assess recent trends in residential fixed broadband pricing in the United States. The 2022 edition of the BPI compares prices over two time intervals:
- The price difference from 2021-2022
- A longer-term view in price changes between 2015 and 2022
In both cases, as in the past, the BPI creates an index that allows comparisons between the most popular speed tiers in each year (BPI-Consumer Choice) and the highest speed tiers in each year (BPI-Speed).
Key Findings of the Report:
Broadband Pricing Ran Counter to Significant Overall Inflation in the Past Year
- Real BPI-Consumer Choice broadband prices dropped by 14.7% from 2021-2022
- Real BPI-Speed broadband prices dropped by 11.6% from 2021-2022
- In contrast, the cost of overall goods and services rose by 8% from 2021-2022
Historical Broadband Pricing Analysis Shows Real Broadband Prices Have Been Cut in Half from Seven Years Ago
- Real BPI-Consumer Choice tier prices dropped by 44.6% from 2015-2022
- Real BPI-Speed tier prices dropped by 52.7% from 2015-2022
The Consumer Value of Broadband Service Has Never Been Higher
- Providers have increased the speeds of their broadband offerings. When combined with the price drops for that service, the overall value to customers (measured on a dollars/megabit basis) shows a dramatic improvement over the past seven years.
- The real cost per megabit of both the most popular and fastest service offerings have dropped by around 75% since 2015. This gives the consumers a boost in their wallet and in their daily online performance.
References:
https://ustelecom.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/USTelecom-Broadband-Pricing-Report2022.pdf
Intelsat and PCCW Global combine networks; Intelsat achieves MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet (CE) Certification
Intelsat and PCCW Global Combine Networks:
Satellite communications specialist Intelsat and Hong Kong based PCCW Global have announced a new collaboration to extend the reach, resiliency, and quick delivery of on-demand enterprise connectivity offerings.
The integration of Intelsat’s FlexEnterprise global connectivity fabric with PCCW Global’s Console Connect Software Defined Interconnection® platform enables organizations to deliver enterprise connectivity to locations around the globe while leveraging an easy-to-use platform underpinned by one of the world’s largest private MPLS networks.
The combined solution addresses two key obstacles to delivering reliable, agile services across all of an enterprise’s locations: limited local telecom infrastructure that can challenge traditional network deployments in developing or hard-to-reach places, and lengthy lead times typically associated with creating high-performance networks and services. The collaboration brings together FlexEnterprise’s reach and reduced network deployment speed and Console Connect’s real-time quoting, ordering and provisioning of high-performance connectivity.
Mr. Frederick Chui, Chief Commercial Officer, PCCW Global, said, “The collaboration with Intelsat brings together the latest innovations in fixed network and satellite network technologies to deliver more flexible enterprise connectivity solutions. By integrating Intelsat’s FlexEnterprise solution with the Console Connect digital platform, our global customers can access satellite connected locations wherever they need to and effortlessly turn up services across all sites.”
FlexEnterprise leverages the world’s largest and most advanced integrated satellite fleet and ground infrastructure to enable service providers to integrate the reach and reliability of Intelsat services without the need to manage wholesale satellite capacity. The connectivity-as-a-service solution offers packaged service that makes it quicker and more cost-effective to add resiliency to existing sites and extend the reach of enterprise networks to even the most remote areas.
The Console Connect digital platform puts users in control of one of the world’s largest MPLS and Tier 1 IP networks, providing them with private, on-demand connections between over 750 data centres across more than 50 countries worldwide. Console Connect is home to a growing ecosystem of cloud, SaaS, IX, IoT, carrier and enterprise partners, which are directly interconnected by the platform’s private high-performance network, delivering higher levels of network performance, speed, and security. Through the platform’s MeetingPlace feature, users can also directly order and provision partner services, such as remote peering, colocation and business applications, as well as access native services from Console Connect.
Mr. Brian Jakins, General Manager and Vice President of Networks, Intelsat, said, “Our Sales and Product teams work closely with the telecom ecosystem to make satellite services more relevant and easier to adopt for a broader set of customers. With the integration into the Console Connect platform, Intelsat is able to more easily meet customers anywhere on the PCCW Global network, while enterprises leverage the platform to extend applications and services to their most remote users and outposts.”
Intelsat’s Global Network is First to Achieve MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet Certification for New Performance Tier:
Intelsat has become the first satellite operator to achieve MEF 3.0 Carrier Ethernet (CE) Certification for services delivered through its integrated space and global terrestrial network. Intelsat’s achievement means that customers can dependably integrate Intelsat’s global network solutions into their network solutions with assurance of performance and security. This also represents continued progress towards Intelsat’s Unified Network vision to enable seamless, end-to-end orchestrated services, driven by our integration of 5G and other open standards.
“Intelsat’s achievement of MEF 3.0 certification ensures that customers can rely on Intelsat to provide Ethernet services that meet the demands of enterprise, government and wholesale use cases with key performance indicators that define the industry standard for high-quality,” said Lance Hassan, Director of Terrestrial Network Innovation at Intelsat. “This achievement also demonstrates Intelsat’s leadership as a satellite communications company and global provider of network solutions.
MEF service definitions help telecom service providers accelerate product development and service implementations, with definitive measures to ensure consistency of the quality of the services they provide. As part of Intelsat’s continued efforts to drive open standards development and adoption across the satellite industry, the company worked with MEF member companies to amend MEF 23 with a new Performance Tier (PT5) that defines new Class of Service performance objectives for satellite-based networks.
“Intelsat, in achieving our industry’s first MEF 3.0 certification for GEO satellite-based Carrier Ethernet services, is adding a dimension to MEF’s important work that will benefit users no matter where they stand on the globe,” said Bob Mandeville, president and founder of Iometrix, MEF’s testing partner for carrier ethernet certifications.
“Companies in the satellite community are crucially important in enabling accessibility of carrier ethernet services anywhere on the planet,” said Kevin Vachon, chief operating officer, MEF. “Achieving MEF 3.0 certification facilitates interoperability with terrestrial networks and lays the groundwork to ultimately achieve service automation with MEF’s Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) framework and APIs. We congratulate Intelsat on their certification achievements.”
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