{"id":38855,"date":"2024-07-26T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=38855"},"modified":"2024-07-26T08:44:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T07:44:28","slug":"sky-uk-reveals-broadband-traffic-tv-and-mobile-network-usage-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/07\/sky-uk-reveals-broadband-traffic-tv-and-mobile-network-usage-stats.html","title":{"rendered":"Sky UK Reveals Broadband Traffic, TV and Mobile Network Usage Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comcast-owned internet, TV and mobile provider Sky UK has published an interesting new report, which reveals a lot of new details about their network and TV usage, which we haven’t previously seen. For example, ISP Sky Broadband<\/a> now has 1.5 million FTTP<\/a> customers and internet traffic peaked at 24.35Tbps on 9th April 2024.<\/p>\n

The new ‘Sky Attention Index<\/strong><\/a>‘ (PDF) report, which includes data from the January to June 2024 period, broadly summarises a sizeable amount of data from across Sky’s network of services. But naturally our focus is more on the broadband and mobile side of things, although this does cross into video streaming and IPTV a bit too.<\/p>\n

On the Sky Broadband<\/a> side of things, it’s noted that their customers used over 19 billion GigaBytes of data in the last six months alone and a lot of that was spent powering connected homes, with 21 connected devices on average now in UK households. A total of 1.5 million homes are now also taking their Openreach<\/a> powered full fibre (FTTP<\/a>) connections, although they don’t give a figure for their other ADSL<\/a>, FTTC<\/a> and G.fast<\/a> lines.<\/p>\n

When Sky asked people what they use their home internet for every day, the most popular answer was browsing social media and websites, followed by streaming movies and TV.<\/p>\n

\"Sky-Broadband-Traffic-Drivers\"<\/p>\n

In terms of broadband traffic, Sky’s data shows that the biggest uptick in traffic between 9am and 5pm is on Monday and Friday \u2013 suggesting they could be the most popular days to work from home, said Sky. The biggest peak so far was seen on 9th of April 2024, when broadband usage hit 24.35Tbps<\/strong> (Terabits per second) as people stayed in to watch Arsenal vs Bayern Munich and Real Madrid vs Manchester City.<\/p>\n

Similarly, on the 7th of February, Sky saw a surge to 23.92Tbps<\/strong> as the Call of Duty Modern Warfare III Season 2 update was released to gamers. We also get some detail from the Sky Mobile<\/a> service, which is being powered by O2<\/a>’s national network (MVNO).<\/p>\n

Sky’s Mobile Traffic and Data<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n