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Halifax UK Find the South East is the Best Rural Place to Live for Broadband

9th April, 2013 (6 Comments)

The 2013 Halifax Rural Areas Quality of Life Survey has reported that residents of Waverley in Surrey (England, UK) have the best quality of life of any rural area in Great Britain. More generally the South East was found to have the highest level of households with access to “fast broadband“.

Point Topic Claim Residential Demand for 1Gbps Fibre Broadband is Low

13th March, 2013 (14 Comments)

A new study from telecoms analyst Point Topic UK has suggested that there is a ceiling to the broadband speeds that residential consumers are prepared to pay for, with hybrid-fibre (e.g. FTTC, FTTN) solutions tending to dominate the “superfast” market and demand for “bandwidths of a gigabit” being “relatively low“.

The Average Cost Per Megabit by Broadband ISP Technology for 2012

28th February, 2013 (3 Comments)

Point Topic UK has published its latest Q4-2012 analysis of global standalone and bundled broadband tariffs, which found that residential consumers in Western Europe pay the lowest for cable broadband based ISP services. But consumers in the Asia-Pacific region still get the best deal for fibre optic (e.g. FTTH) and older DSL services.

Death of EU Broadband Funding to Boost 4G and WiFi Mobile Alternatives

26th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has suggested that internet access solutions which attract a low marginal cost, such as Mobile Broadband, Satellite and WiFi, are now likely to play a bigger then expected part in the UK and Europe’s strategy for expanding broadband coverage into rural areas.

Fibre Overtakes Cable to Become Worlds 2nd Biggest Broadband ISP Tech

20th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The latest Point Topic and Broadband Forum study for Q3-2012 has revealed that the world is now home to a total of 635.9 million broadband subscribers. But most interesting of all is how fibre optic (FTTx) based ISP technologies have overtaken cable (e.g. Virgin Media) to become the second largest method of internet connectivity after DSL (ADSL etc.).

UK Analyst Criticises Super Expensive FTTH Broadband ISP Solutions

18th February, 2013 (2 Comments)

The boss of telecoms analyst firm Point Topic, Oliver Johnson, has warned that blowing true fibre optic lines (FTTH / P) along the streets and across the fields of Europe and the United Kingdom is ultimately “super-expensive” and thus no longer the “first choice” when it comes to building new superfast broadband networks.

BDUK to Bring Superfast Broadband to 1.8m Extra UK Homes by 2015

29th January, 2013 (1 Comment)

Telecoms analyst Point Topic has predicted that superfast broadband (30Mbps+) services, with state aid support through the government’s Broadband Delivery UK office, will cover 1.8 million more homes in the United Kingdom by 2015 than if the only source of investment had been the private sector.

Point Topic Publishes UK Map of Superfast Broadband Uptake

4th December, 2012 (0 Comments)

Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has today published a new map of superfast broadband take-up in the United Kingdom, which predictably reveals that adoption of superfast services appears to be strongest in areas where it has been “available for some time” (e.g. Northern Ireland, which is said to have “encouraging” adoption rates).

Point Topic Release Map of Superfast Broadband Coverage in UK and Europe

12th November, 2012 (0 Comments)

Analyst firm Point Topic has released its report into the coverage of superfast broadband (Next Generation Access) services in the EU, which is intended to assess how close Europe is to achieving its Digital Agenda goals. Apparently the EU as a whole is just “half-way towards the goal” of 30Mbps+ for all by 2020.

Growth Slows as Global Broadband Subscribers Total 624.1M in Q2 2012

17th October, 2012 (0 Comments)

Analyst firm Point Topic UK has reported that the total number of broadband lines globally reached 624.1 Million in Q2 2012 (quarterly growth of 2.1%), which represents a “significant decline” in growth versus the 2.7% increase seen during Q1. Thankfully superfast fibre optic (FTTx) based connections showed more promise.

Point Topic Publishes New UK Map of Broadband Infrastructure Quality

5th October, 2012 (6 Comments)

Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has today published a new UK map of broadband infrastructure, which uses data collected during June 2012 to measure the quality of each local authority area by the kind of ISPs, networks and technologies that are available.

Average Global Residential Fibre Optic Broadband Tariffs Getting Cheaper

26th September, 2012 (3 Comments)

Telecoms analyst Point Topic has today revealed that the average cost of standalone broadband packages (tariffs) offered to consumers has continued to fall for superfast fibre optic and cable based broadband ISP packages, yet the price of slower DSL (e.g. ADSL2+) services has stayed fairly flat.

Analyst Slams UK Superfast Broadband Target as Irrelevant and Not Achievable

11th September, 2012 (4 Comments)

Tim Johnson, a telecoms analyst for Point Topic, has called the UK government’s target for having the “best superfast broadband in Europe by 2015” both “not relevant to Britain’s needs” and “not achievable“. Johnson instead called for the new Culture Secretary, Maria Miller, to replaced it with a more “intelligent” goal.

Analyst Claims UK Broadband Rollout Targets Ignore the End User Experience

29th August, 2012 (25 Comments)

Point Topic’s Tim Johnson has told the Broadband Forum’s quarterly meeting in Bucharest that UK and EU plans to deploy superfast broadband are at risk of putting too much emphasis on headline speeds and “not enough on the user experience“, with 40 million homes in Europe still unable to get even basic speeds of 2Mbps (Megabits per second).

New UK Map of Broadband ISP Speed Finds 13 Percent Get Below 2Mbps

14th August, 2012 (16 Comments)

Telecoms analyst Point Topic has today published a new UK map of broadband speed availability, which claims that 13% of UK homes and businesses (nearly 4 million premises) still can’t receive internet download speeds of above 2Mbps (Megabits per second) and most are in rural areas.

BT and Virgin Media Push UK Superfast Broadband to Over 2 Million Subscribers

9th August, 2012 (8 Comments)

Telecoms analyst Point Topic has today revealed that some 10% (2 million+) of the United Kingdom’s fixed line ISP subscribers were connected via a superfast broadband (25Mbps+) service at the start of July 2012, which leaves 16.3 million on standard broadband products with sub-25Mbps speeds (total 21.3 million). But problems remain.

GBP0.89 Trillion Global Tax Revenue Lost Without Broadband Investment

22nd June, 2012 (4 Comments)

The CEO of Telecoms analyst firm Point Topic UK, Oliver Johnson, has claimed that political leaders, such as Ex-PM Tony Blair, who “are not brave” or knowledgeable enough to invest in a better broadband infrastructure, could be costing the world economy an estimated £0.89 Trillion (annually) in lost tax revenue.