{"id":28724,"date":"2021-11-12T16:18:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T16:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=28724"},"modified":"2021-11-13T06:24:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T06:24:11","slug":"the-eu-publishes-2021-broadband-connectivity-progress-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/the-eu-publishes-2021-broadband-connectivity-progress-study.html","title":{"rendered":"The EU Publishes 2021 Broadband Connectivity Progress Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long delay due to COVID-19, the European Commission has today published their annual 2021 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which reveals how the EU&#8217;s fixed line broadband ISP and mobile networks compare. The UK was removed from this edition due to Brexit, so we&#8217;ve used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s data to compare.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present the EU&#8217;s main goal for connectivity in the Digital Decade is for every European household to have access to &#8220;<em>high-speed internet<\/em>&#8221; coverage by the end of 2025 (defined as 100Mbps+) and gigabit (1000Mbps+) connectivity by the end of 2030. Today&#8217;s new report, which is based on data from last year, is thus partly intended to help gauge the progress toward achieving those goals.<\/p>\n<p>One obvious change from the last report in 2020 is that the United Kingdom has now completely left the EU and as a result we do not feature in this report. Nevertheless, the data is useful for seeing how neighbouring countries are progressing.<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/gov-starts-gbp5bn-uk-gigabit-broadband-and-voucher-schemes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a35bn Project Gigabit<\/a><\/strong> programme also has a different goal from the EU. The aim over this side of the channel is to bring gigabit-capable broadband to at least 85% of UK premises by the end of 2025 and 100% as soon as possible, albeit with public funding being focused upon those in the final 20% of hardest to reach premises.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of 2021 we expect that around 65% of UK premises will have access to order gigabit speed connections (currently 60%), which is due to a mix of <strong>Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) deployments and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/docsis\">DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1 upgrade on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s older <strong>Hybrid Fibre Coax<\/strong> (HFC) network.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding: 0px; width: 100%; border-radius: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2021-uk-internet-statistics\/eu_desi_2021_overall.png\" alt=\"eu_desi_2021_overall\"><\/p>\n<p>We should point out that <strong>NGA<\/strong> (Next Generation Access) broadband generally means fixed lines that can deliver so-called &#8220;<em>superfast<\/em>&#8221; download speeds (<strong>30Mbps+<\/strong>), while <strong>VHCN<\/strong> networks are just another way of identifying gigabit-capable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/docsis\">DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1 or better networks. Elsewhere, we don&#8217;t yet have any solid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> coverage figures for the UK to compare.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of NGA coverage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s latest May 2021 data found that over 96% of premises could access such a service, which compares with 87% in the EU. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s data for ultrafast coverage (using the figure of 300Mbps+) was also 62%, which is perhaps more comparable with the EU&#8217;s latest position of 59% for VHCN now that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/docsis\">DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1 upgrade is nearly completed.<\/p>\n<p>However, the EU doesn&#8217;t include a specific measure for full fibre coverage, which is one area where we&#8217;d be trailing very far behind.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding: 0px; width: 100%; border-radius: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2021-uk-internet-statistics\/eu-desi-2021-nga-broadband-coverage.png\" alt=\"eu-desi-2021-nga-broadband-coverage\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding: 0px; width: 100%; border-radius: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2021-uk-internet-statistics\/eu-desi-2021-vhcn-broadband-coverage.png\" alt=\"eu-desi-2021-vhcn-broadband-coverage\"><\/p>\n<p>Comparing mobile coverage is a little more challenging because Ofcom has a different methodology, although their figure for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> outdoor premises coverage is about as close as you can get to the EU&#8217;s population method. On that front, the EU delivered an impressive 99.7% to the UK&#8217;s 98%+.<\/p>\n<p>As stated earlier, we can&#8217;t easily compare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> coverage because Ofcom has yet to report any solid data, while other studies use the different measure of &#8220;<em>availability<\/em>&#8221; (i.e. % of time on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> vs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a>). However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> did recently claim to have pushed their &#8220;<em>outdoor population coverage<\/em>&#8221; (not geographic) to 29% of the UK, and they tend to be a little behind the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> etc. This would place us close to Ireland below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding: 0px; width: 100%; border-radius: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2021-uk-internet-statistics\/eu-desi-2021-4g-coverage.png\" alt=\"eu-desi-2021-4g-coverage\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding: 0px; width: 100%; border-radius: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2021-uk-internet-statistics\/eu-desi-2021-5g-coverage.png\" alt=\"eu-desi-2021-5g-coverage\"><\/p>\n<p>The full report contains a lot more data, albeit covering areas that are harder to examine without directly comparable data for the UK to play with. Ofcom should be able to fill in some gaps when they publish their annual infrastructure report next month, but in the meantime you can check out the full DESI index below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>2021 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/desi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu\/en\/policies\/desi<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long delay due to COVID-19, the European Commission has today published their annual 2021 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which reveals how the EU&#8217;s fixed line broadband ISP and mobile networks compare. The UK was removed from this edition due to Brexit, so we&#8217;ve used Ofcom&#8217;s data to compare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,406,471,85,55,65,56,69,38,34,537,475],"class_list":["post-28724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-4g","tag-5g","tag-bduk","tag-europe","tag-fttc","tag-ftth","tag-fttp","tag-bt-openreach","tag-politics","tag-statistics","tag-uso","tag-virgin-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The EU Publishes 2021 Broadband Connectivity Progress Study - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After a long delay due to COVID-19, the European Commission has today published their annual 2021 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which reveals\" \/>\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\/2021\/11\/the-eu-publishes-2021-broadband-connectivity-progress-study.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The EU Publishes 2021 Broadband Connectivity Progress Study - 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