{"id":3761,"date":"2013-07-19T08:59:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T07:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2013-07-19T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T11:30:50","slug":"oecd-report-finds-uk-fibre-optic-broadband-growth-hit-172-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/07\/oecd-report-finds-uk-fibre-optic-broadband-growth-hit-172-in-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"OECD Report Finds UK Fibre Optic Broadband Growth Hit 172% in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/\" target=\"_new\">Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development<\/a>, which covers 34 countries that claim to support democracy and a market economy, has reported that the United Kingdom experienced an annual growth rate of 172% for true fibre optic broadband (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a>\/P\/B) ISP connections.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As with last year\u2019s report (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/07\/oecd-ranks-uk-8th-in-its-fixed-broadband-rankings.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) the UK continues to place <strong>8th overall<\/strong> in the OECD&#8217;s fixed (wired) broadband penetration rankings (i.e. 34.3 subscribers per 100 inhabitants vs the OECD average of 26.3 per 100) and like most other countries our home market is dominated by slower <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">ADSL<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">DSL<\/a>) based copper broadband connections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">DSL<\/a> based fixed line connections now account for 53.6% of the market in all OECD countries (down from 55.8% last year), while cable platforms like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> hold 30.8% (up from 30%) and the new generation of fibre optic services grew to 14.9% (up from 13.7%). Total fixed broadband connections in the OECD came to <strong>327.165 million<\/strong> (21,662,097 of which were from the UK).<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere just 0.2% of the separate market for wireless internet connections was occupied by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">satellite<\/a> broadband (1,418,014 subscriptions), while dedicated Mobile Broadband data links held 14.4% (112,088,322) and standard mobile phone based data connections dominated with 84.8% (662,422,218). Take note that we&#8217;ve cosmetically customised some of the graphs to make them more readable.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" alt=\"oecd dec 2012 fixed broadband rankings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2013-internet-statistics\/oecd_dec_2012_fixed_broadband_rankings.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p>But the big news this time is that the United Kingdom reported the OECD&#8217;s third highest level of annual growth in fibre optic broadband connections at 172%, which is especially interesting since they define fibre services as only including ultrafast <strong>Fibre-to-the-Home<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a>\/P) and <strong>Fibre-to-the-Building<\/strong> (FTTB or apartment LAN).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" alt=\"oecd december 2012 fibre optic growth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2013-internet-statistics\/oecd_dec_2012_fibre_optic_growth.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p>However, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a> Council, at the end of 2012 the United Kingdom was home to around 199,000 truly fibre optic connections with a take-up rate of about 8.5% (somewhat less than the OECD appears to claim). Roughly half of that came from BTOpenreach&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>\/H network, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> did the next 24,000 and the rest came from other operators like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/b4rn\" target=\"_blank\">B4RN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/hyperopticfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperoptic<\/a>, KC and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a> etc.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere\u00a0the OECD said that true fibre optic connections still only account for a minority of the UK market (5%), which compares poorly with top-runner Japan&#8217;s 66.72%. However, as most people will be aware, the dominant forms of superfast broadband connectivity in the UK are currently slower hybrid-fibre solutions like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s <strong>Fibre-to-the-Cabinet<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>) service or cable. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> currently has about 1.5 million connections in the UK and passes 15 million premises.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" alt=\"oecd december 2012 fibre optic connections\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2013-internet-statistics\/oecd_dec_2012_fibre_optic_connections.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Overall the OECD states that true fibre optic connections grew by 12.7% in 2012, which is four times as much as fixed broadband on 3.27%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which covers 34 countries that claim to support democracy and a market economy, has reported that the United Kingdom experienced an annual growth rate of 172% for true fibre optic broadband (FTTH\/P\/B) ISP connections.<\/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":[52,55,65,56,34],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-fibre-optic","tag-fttc","tag-ftth","tag-fttp","tag-statistics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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