{"id":11527,"date":"2016-04-18T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=11527"},"modified":"2016-04-18T09:48:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:48:27","slug":"ftth-overtakes-cable-world-broadband-subscribers-hit-751m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/ftth-overtakes-cable-world-broadband-subscribers-hit-751m.html","title":{"rendered":"FTTH Overtakes Cable as World Broadband Users Hit 751 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The total number of world broadband subscriptions reached 751.2 million at the end of last year, which is a quarterly Q4 2015 growth of around +1.31% (down from +1.4% in Q3 2015) and there are now more <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-122 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"ftth\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTH<\/a> users worldwide than those using cable (e.g. <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-65\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"virgin media\">Virgin Media<\/a>) technologies.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-135 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/pointtopic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"point topic\" data-chref=\"http:\/\/point-topic.com\">Point Topic<\/a>, regional market shares held fairly stable in Q4 2015 and <strong>East Asia<\/strong> (e.g. Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, China etc.) continued to attract the most quarterly net additions of new subscribers (29.95% in East Asia vs 10.08% in Eastern Europe and 18.75% in the rest of Europe).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of Internet connection technology, ultrafast pure fibre optic (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-122 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"ftth\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTH<\/a>\/P) broadband connections saw their year-on-year growth rise from a little over 56% in Q3 2015 to 60.6% at the end of 2015 and related lines are now more common than cable (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-113 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/docsis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"docsis\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_cable.php\">DOCSIS<\/a>) broadband; incidentally cable lines grew by a stable 6.9% in the final quarter of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile hybrid-fibre broadband (e.g. FTTx \/ <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-120 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttc\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_cable.php\">FTTC<\/a> \/ VDSL) services also reported a fairly stable quarterly rise of 14.7%, which was followed by a 10.5% quarterly growth in wireless connections (down from 17.1% in Q3) and an 8.5% growth in <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-119 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"satellite\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_satellite.php\">Satellite<\/a> (down from 10% in Q3). Apparently Italy recorded a 33% quarterly growth in VDSL subscribers and they still have more of those lines than anybody else (note: the UK has about 5.5 million, mostly via <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s national network).<\/p>\n<p>Sadly the rate of decline for old end-to-end copper line <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-121 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"digital subscriber line\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_DSL.php\">DSL<\/a> broadband technologies, such as <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-121 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"digital subscriber line\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_DSL.php\">ADSL<\/a> (up to 2-8Mbps) and ADSL2+ (up to 20Mbps), increased from -15% in Q3 2015 to -18.7% at the end of 2015 as consumers swapped to fibre based broadband and other methods of fast Internet connectivity.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2016-internet-statistics\/broadband_technology_by_market_share_q4_2015.gif\" alt=\"broadband_technology_by_market_share_q4_2015\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Broadband growth continues to be strong.\u00a0 Even as one technology starts to falter and tail off another starts to take off.\u00a0 The one constant is the demand for bandwidth and the primary driver is still video<\/em>,&#8221; said Oliver Johnson, Chief Executive at <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-135 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/pointtopic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"point topic\" data-chref=\"http:\/\/point-topic.com\">Point Topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total number of world broadband subscriptions reached 751.2 million at the end of last year, which is a quarterly Q4 2015 growth of around +1.31% (down from +1.4% in Q3 2015) and there are now more FTTH users worldwide than those using cable (e.g. Virgin Media) technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,55,65,56,39,77,34,476],"class_list":["post-11527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-fibre-optic","tag-fttc","tag-ftth","tag-fttp","tag-point-topic","tag-satellite","tag-statistics","tag-wifi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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