{"id":37221,"date":"2024-02-16T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T12:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=37221"},"modified":"2024-02-16T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T12:29:42","slug":"ofcom-uk-scrap-international-broadband-scorecard-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/ofcom-uk-scrap-international-broadband-scorecard-comparison.html","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom UK Scrap International Broadband Scorecard Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The telecoms regulator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>, has quietly scrapped another fixed broadband related performance report &#8211; this time it&#8217;s their annual international comparison, which pits the United Kingdom\u2019s broadband and mobile connectivity against the EU&#8217;s major economies (France, Germany, Spain and Italy etc.) and some other large countries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> has been publishing the International Broadband Scorecard since 2013, which examined various connectivity metrics like network availability, take-up, use and prices of fixed and mobile broadband performance across countries for the purpose of measuring and comparing against the UK&#8217;s relative performance.<\/p>\n<p>The non-UK data for these reports was typically sourced from a third-party provider (<strong>Omdia-Informa Tech<\/strong>), which was appointed following a competitive tender process. But the regulator has decided that as international data is available from Omdia-Informa Tech and similar telecoms research companies (albeit for a fee), &#8220;<em>it is [our] view that stopping the publication of the International Broadband Scorecard will not hinder stakeholders\u2019 ability to benchmark the UK broadband market internationally<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In our view the move, which looks like another cost-cutting measure, is somewhat of a negative as it did provide a useful point of annual comparison. On the other hand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> weren&#8217;t particularly good at promoting the reports, which often ended up being hidden away as an editorial footnote (we missed this year&#8217;s report for precisely this reason &#8211; it was never spotted).<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the European Commission does still publish a reasonably wide-ranging annual report (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/09\/eu-reveal-2023-broadband-and-5g-connectivity-progress-vs-uk.html\">here<\/a>), which can be used to help compare the UK with at least the EU states. Otherwise, a summary of Ofcom&#8217;s final 2023 scorecard can be seen below, or you can check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/research-and-data\/telecoms-research\/broadband-research\/eu-broadband-scorecard\/international-broadband-scorecard-2023-interactive-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interactive report<\/a> online. But much of the data is from late 2022, which is quite old (a common problem when trying to do any large international comparison).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>UK Summary Table<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" style=\"padding: 0px; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2024-uk-internet-statistics\/Ofcom-International-Broadband-Scorecard-2023.webp\" alt=\"Ofcom-International-Broadband-Scorecard-2023\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has quietly scrapped another fixed broadband related performance report &#8211; this time it&#8217;s their annual international comparison, which pits the United Kingdom\u2019s broadband and mobile connectivity against the EU&#8217;s major economies (France, Germany, Spain and Italy etc.) and some other large countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,34],"class_list":["post-37221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-statistics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/111941168958609985","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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