The latest
Point Topic report reveals that the total number of global broadband subscribers in Q2-2013 has grown just +0.7% (down from +2% in Q1) to total 656,500,000, which is the “slowest quarterly growth reported since 1998“. But the expansion of superfast fibre optic (
FTTH,
FTTC etc.) based connectivity has continued and now accounts for nearly 25% of all connections (up from 22% in Q1).