{"id":885,"date":"2012-05-18T13:31:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T12:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=885"},"modified":"2012-05-18T13:33:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T12:33:17","slug":"10-8-million-uk-superfast-fibre-broadband-lines-predicted-for-q4-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/05\/10-8-million-uk-superfast-fibre-broadband-lines-predicted-for-q4-2016.html","title":{"rendered":"10.8 Million UK Superfast Fibre Broadband Lines Predicted for Q4 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest market forecast from telecoms analyst firm <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 predicted that the UK will be home to a total of <strong>25.9 million broadband ISP lines<\/strong> by the end of 2016 (currently 20,736,500), with <strong>10.8 million<\/strong> coming from superfast &#8220;<strong>FTTx<\/strong>&#8221; (fibre optic) connections (&#8220;<em>28 times the total FTTx lines recorded for Q4 2011<\/em>&#8220;).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe UK telecoms regulator, <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-133 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"ofcom\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\">Ofcom<\/a>, recently confirmed that <strong>63% of UK households<\/strong> now have access to superfast broadband (defined as 24-30Mbps+ by the UK government and EU), which also includes Cable Modem services from <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-65\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"virgin media\">Virgin Media<\/a>. However, actual <strong>uptake remains extremely low<\/strong>, with around 5% of UK households being subscribed to related services.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison <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>&#8217;s forecast is refreshingly optimistic and that&#8217;s before you even consider cable connections. <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a> recently confirmed that its superfast <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> \/ <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> services have now <strong>passed 10 million homes<\/strong> and businesses (almost 40% of the country), with <strong>550,000 customers<\/strong> taking the service; +9,000 from <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-59\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"talktalk\">TalkTalk<\/a>. Elsewhere some 20% of Virgin\u2019s cable broadband base (<em>850,000<\/em>), which covers roughly half of the country, take its 30Mbps+ packages.<\/p>\n<p>Point Topic research indicates that the country\u2019s alternative network operators (altnets),\u00a0such as Rutland Telecom, LNcomms\u00a0and <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-49 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/b4rn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"Broadband 4 the Rural North\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/b4rn.org.uk\">B4RN<\/a>,\u00a0have also increased their residential customer base by 85% since mid-2011 and had around <strong>8,400 fibre-based superfast end user connections<\/strong> at the end of 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Point Topics Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-145\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"BT\">BT<\/a> and <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-65\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"virgin media\">Virgin Media<\/a> build scale in premises passed and end users signed to their superfast broadband services some of the UK\u2019s alternative network operators are beginning to find their niche. Clearly not all altnets will be successful and questions remain concerning the long-term viability of alternative network operators as significant players in the country\u2019s superfast broadband future. Nevertheless there are circumstances in which their varied and localised approaches look set to bring superfast broadband to individual communities that have often been struggling with access to even the most basic of broadband services<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Happily the coverage of superfast broadband, especially FTTx services, should continue to improve and the UK government hopes that <strong>90% will be within reach of such a connection by 2015<\/strong>. As coverage improves then so too will uptake, while growing competition and new innovations (e.g. self-installs) should also help to make the prices more attractive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest market forecast from telecoms analyst firm Point Topic has predicted that the UK will be home to a total of 25.9 million broadband ISP lines by the end of 2016 (currently 20,736,500), with 10.8 million coming from superfast &#8220;FTTx&#8221; (fibre optic) connections (&#8220;28 times the total FTTx lines recorded for Q4 2011&#8220;).<\/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":[55,65,56,39,34],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-fttc","tag-ftth","tag-fttp","tag-point-topic","tag-statistics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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