{"id":44577,"date":"2026-01-27T14:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=44577"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:58:56","slug":"world-broadband-lines-top-1-56bn-as-uk-full-fibre-growth-slows-in-q3-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/world-broadband-lines-top-1-56bn-as-uk-full-fibre-growth-slows-in-q3-2025.html","title":{"rendered":"World Broadband Lines Top 1.56bn as UK Full Fibre Growth Slows in Q3 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research from <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> has revealed that global fixed broadband lines grew by <span class=\"akGp8\">1.46%<\/span> or 22.42 million in Q3 2025 (up from 1.12% in Q2 2025) to total 1.56 billion connections. The subscriber growth rate of \u201c<em>full fibre<\/em>\u201d (<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>\/B) networks also remained strong in the UK at almost 7%, but this is down from 11.7% in Q4 2024.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Once again South and East Asia has continued to claim the largest share of global fixed broadband subscribers, having increased from 51.04% to 51.28% over the past quarter (they also accounted for 67.89% of all new lines added in the quarter), which is mainly due to China\u2019s huge size. By comparison, the whole of Europe (inc. UK) only accounted for 17.13% of overall subscribers and 6.67% of quarterly net adds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> The report only examined the highest full fibre growth rates in the largest fibre markets \u2013 those with at least 0.5 million fibre broadband connections.<\/div>\n<p>The data also confirms that, overall, both cable (hybrid fibre coax) and copper (<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\">ADSL<\/a>, SDSL) based broadband connections continued to lose market share as full fibre lines cannibalised their customers. Between Q2 2025 and Q3 2025, copper-based broadband lines fell from 4.03% to 3.82% in Q3, while cable fell from 11.07% to 10.83% and hybrid fibre (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-120 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttc\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_cable.php\">FTTC<\/a> etc.) fell from 8.45% to 8.21% over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, full fibre <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\/B lines saw their global market share increase from 72.61% to 73.09%, and it was a similar story for <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-119 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"satellite\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_satellite.php\">satellite<\/a> (0.50% to 0.52%) and wireless networks (2.98% to 3.15%). &#8220;<em>While the decline in legacy copper and part copper is not surprising, cable\/HFC also appears to be on the way out in some markets,&#8221;<\/em> said <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>.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the United Kingdom continues to appear in the top table for country-specific quarterly growth of FTTP\/B subscribers in Q3 2025, although our growth rate has slowed to nearly 7%. By comparison, <span class=\"akGp8\">the highest FTTH\/B growth rates were found in Egypt (23.8%), Algeria (15.4%), Belgium (10.9%), South Africa (10.8%), and Greece (10.7%).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Top 10 markets by FTTH\/B growth rates<\/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\/2026-uk-internet-statistics\/Top-10-markets-by-FTTH-growth-rates.webp\" alt=\"Top 10 markets by FTTH\/B growth rates\"><\/p>\n<p>The small market share of <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-119 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"satellite\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_satellite.php\">satellite<\/a> solutions is also masking the fact that new services, such as <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-188\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/starlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"Starlink Satellite Broadband\">Starlink<\/a> from SpaceX, have actually delivered significant growth. Satellite broadband subscribers saw a boost of 38.2% year-on-year. The largest markets remain the US (2.4m), Canada (0.6m), Brazil (0.4m) and Argentina (0.4m); estimated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from Point Topic has revealed that global fixed broadband lines grew by 1.46% or 22.42 million in Q3 2025 (up from 1.12% in Q2 2025) to total 1.56 billion connections. 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