{"id":14662,"date":"2017-09-26T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=14662"},"modified":"2017-09-27T12:17:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:17:16","slug":"europe-vs-uk-new-study-summarises-fixed-broadband-4g-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/europe-vs-uk-new-study-summarises-fixed-broadband-4g-coverage.html","title":{"rendered":"Europe vs UK &#8211; New Study Summarises Fixed Broadband and 4G Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-101 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"european commission\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/index_en\">European Commission<\/a> has published a new study from IHS Markit and <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>, which summarises the current state of broadband coverage across Europe and measures how close the EU is to achieving their Digital Agenda goals (i.e. 30Mbps for all, with 50% subscribed to 100Mbps+ by 2020).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At this point we should say that many of the headline figures in this report have already been covered in past progress updates from earlier this year (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/uk-drop-7th-place-2017-eu-broadband-connectivity-progress-report.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/05\/2017-eu-broadband-progress-report-puts-uk-bottom-full-fibre-cover.html\">here<\/a>) and similarly the information is based on data collected to the end of June 2016, which is now quite out-of-date. However the earlier studies focused exclusively on the 28 EU counties, while this one also includes data from Norway, Iceland and Switzerland.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Key Findings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* In the 12 months to the end of June 2016, 12.8 million new EU households gained access to high-speed broadband delivered via Next-Generation Access (NGA) networks<\/p>\n<p>* By mid-2016, high-speed NGA broadband services (at least 30Mbps download speeds) were available to 75.9% of EU households.<\/p>\n<p>* Very-high-speed-<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> (VDSL \/ FTTC) continues to be the key driver of NGA coverage growth across the EU, increasing by 7.1% points and reaching nearly a half (48.2%) of EU homes.<\/p>\n<p>* <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-116 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"4g\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_mobile.php\">4G<\/a> LTE networks expanded at a fast pace and covered 96% of EU households by the end of June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>* The gap between rural and national NGA coverage is closing, but remains significant with only 39.2% rural households across the EU having access to high-speed broadband services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We don&#8217;t plan to go into too much detail here because to do so would be to repeat what we&#8217;ve already written in the two prior articles (linked above), although the report does note that broadband network operators across Europe continue to focus their deployment strategies on upgrading existing copper networks (e.g. VDSL2 \/ FTTC) &#8220;<em>instead of investing in the typically more expensive deployments of fibre optic [<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-110 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttp\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTP<\/a>\/H] networks.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Alzbeta Fellenbaum, Principal Analyst at IHS Markit, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since 2013, VDSL has been the fastest growing fixed broadband technology tracked by the study, and some countries have seen dramatic year-on-year growth in VDSL. For instance, VDSL coverage in Italy more than doubled during the twelve-month period to mid-2016, as coverage increased by 33.6 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Iceland, Germany, Hungary and Slovakia also witnessed double-digit growth in VDSL coverage during the twelve-month period to mid-2016.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However as the coverage of VDSL reaches maturity (it&#8217;s already around 90% in the UK) then we can expect to see more movement towards &#8220;<em>full fibre<\/em>&#8221; <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-110 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttp\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTP<\/a>\/H ultrafast broadband services, as well as future hybrid-fibre upgrades like <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-112 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/gfast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"g.fast\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_cable.php\">G.fast<\/a> and <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> 3.1. Signs of this are already very evident in the UK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/openreach-extend-330mbps-g-fast-broadband-pilot-1-million-uk-premises.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/ultrafast-fibre-optic-fttp-broadband-networks-cover-1-1-million-uk-premises.html\">here<\/a>) and <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>&#8217;s existing EuroDOCSIS network can already do 350Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>Such upgrades will be essential if the EU ever hopes to stand any chance of achieving their next non-binding goal for &#8220;<em>all European households<\/em>&#8221; to get a minimum Internet download speed of 100Mbps+ by 2025, with businesses and the public sector expecting 1Gbps+ (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/09\/eu-confirms-goal-universal-100mbps-broadband-2025.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The following table summarises the United Kingdom&#8217;s position across various different technologies vs the EU 28 average, which includes a useful breakdown for rural coverage. Take note that the figures for <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-116 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"4g\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_mobile.php\">4G<\/a> (LTE) Mobile appear to reflect population rather than geographic network coverage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2017-uk-internet-statistics\/eu_vs_the_uk_broadband_and_mobile_technology_coverage.png\" alt=\"eu_vs_the_uk_broadband_and_mobile_technology_coverage\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2017-uk-internet-statistics\/eu_broadband_and_mobile_technology_coverage.png\" alt=\"eu broadband and mobile technology coverage June 2016\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>The Report<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/newsroom\/document.cfm?doc_id=47090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Final Study on Broadband Coverage in Europe 2016<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/newsroom\/document.cfm?doc_id=47091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report Data Tables<\/a> (MS Excel)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 27th Sept 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The now almost customary comment from rural FTTH provider <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"gigaclear\">Gigaclear<\/a> has just dropped.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Matthew Hare, CEO of <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"gigaclear\">Gigaclear<\/a>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This summary of the current state of broadband coverage across Europe just reinforces what we already know \u2013 that the UK needs further investment into its ultrafast full fibre broadband infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Key for us is that, across Europe, the telecoms industry continues to focus their deployment strategies on upgrading existing century old copper networks rather than investing in the superior full fibre network. This is resulting in wasted investment into a short term fix rather than a long term, future-proofed solution as well as misinformed consumers, who believe they are receiving a quality full fibre connection, when they are actually receiving limited part-fibre broadband.<\/p>\n<p>At Gigaclear, we are investing hundreds of millions of pounds into new full fibre networks in rural areas, but what is needed is a national plan to ensure that everybody throughout the country has access to future-proofed connectivity that secures our digital economy and enables the UK to compete with the rest of the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has published a new study from IHS Markit and Point Topic, which summarises the current state of broadband coverage across Europe and measures how close the EU is to achieving their Digital Agenda goals (i.e. 30Mbps for all, with 50% subscribed to 100Mbps+ by 2020).<\/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":[471,37,85,38,34],"class_list":["post-14662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-digital-agenda","tag-europe","tag-politics","tag-statistics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Europe vs UK - New Study Summarises Fixed Broadband and 4G Coverage - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The European Commission has published a new study from IHS Markit and Point Topic, which summarises the current state of broadband coverage across Europe\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/europe-vs-uk-new-study-summarises-fixed-broadband-4g-coverage.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Europe vs UK - New Study Summarises Fixed Broadband and 4G Coverage - ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The European Commission has published a new study from IHS Markit and Point Topic, which summarises the current state of broadband coverage across Europe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/europe-vs-uk-new-study-summarises-fixed-broadband-4g-coverage.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ISPreview UK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ispreview\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-09-26T09:00:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-09-27T11:17:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ispreview_uk_logo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ispreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Jackson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/europe-vs-uk-new-study-summarises-fixed-broadband-4g-coverage.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/index.php\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/europe-vs-uk-new-study-summarises-fixed-broadband-4g-coverage.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mark Jackson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ispreview.co.uk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de66a8b4e937c21c80e443d1bf9c35d5\"},\"headline\":\"Europe vs UK &#8211; 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