The government’s Industry Day summit on Thursday to launch its key broadband policies risks missing out on some of the key ideas on how to tackle the UK’s big problems according to Point Topic, the broadband data analysts.

The overlap between broadband, particularly superband, and Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) offers a number of opportunities and pitfalls for the broadcast and broadband industry alike.

A short report on the IPTV statistics for Q1 2010

A short report on the world broadband statistics for Q1 2010

At the end of the first quarter of 2010 the number of IPTV subscribers worldwide had increased to 36.3 million, up by almost 8% in the first three months of the year.

As of 31 March 2010 there were 484 million broadband subscribers in the world.

The market for consumer broadband value-added services (BVAS) grew by 30% during 2009 in revenue terms, and by 13% in terms of subscribers.

Point Topic’s newest broadband forecasts for the UK are good news for broadband operators and service providers.

The latest publication from Point Topic, Broadband Tariff Benchmarks – Q1 2010, contains data and analysis on 2000 residential and business broadband tariffs worldwide covering the three major broadband access technologies DSL, cable and fiber.

GfK NOP* have announced the launch of a service which bridges the gap in today’s internet and broadband market data - the GfK Market Tracker: Broadband.

About 35% of all families with children in the UK do not have broadband at home. In other words, over 4 million children still do not have easy internet access.

Provides key indicators of the relative attractiveness of Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies for superband (superfast broadband) rollout.

Online advertising is starting to grow after a slight decline last year, and new types of Internet advertising are developing.

Welcome to the latest issue of Point Topic’s Broadband Money Makers Update, a free newsletter covering broadband value-added services (BVAS) markets worldwide.

The latest data from Point Topic, with numbers to the end of 2009, show that broadband subscribers have increased to 466.95 million by the end of Q4 2009.

While IPTV is less than 10% of the broadband total it is currently growing far more quickly.

By the end of 2009 there were almost 467 million broadband subscribers globally. Net additions for the quarter totalled over 58 million throughout 2009.

“SIP trunks”, the newer way to deliver low-cost voice, looks set to take off as a broadband-based service for businesses in 2010 to 2011.

One issue dividing the parties at the coming election will be their plans to ensure that superfast broadband (superband for short) is available to the whole United Kingdom within a reasonable timescale.

Provides key indicators of the relative attractiveness of Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies for superband (superfast broadband) rollout.

Point Topic’s forecasts 740m lines by 2014

The latest analysis from Point Topic reveals that by the end of September 2009 VoIP subscriptions had grown by 15% in the first 3 quarters of the year to pass the 100 million milestone.

BT is now leading the pack on NGA deployment after a slow start

Overall the amount consumers pay for a megabit of bandwidth is still on a downward trend across two of the three primary access technologies but where they are decreasing it is more slowly than in previous quarters.

Decisions made in the next few months will be fundamental to the development of broadband in the UK over the next 20 years.

By the end of Q3 2009 net additions totalled almost 14 million. There were almost 452 million broadband subscribers worldwide by the end of the same period

This analysis is taken from the updated report IPTV (video content over broadband) published to mark the launch of the latest service from Point Topic, IPTV Source. Built to help you focus on this particular broadband value added service it provides all you need to understand the technology, the market and the players. You can get more information, take a service tour and download the brochure here.

As far as broadband is concerned, the key proposal in Lord Carter’s Digital Britain Final Report is to charge what he delicately calls a “supplement” of 50p a month on the rental of every telephone line in the country (barring those provided under social telephony schemes). The money raised will go to a “Next Generation Fund” to deliver “at least 90% coverage of next-generation broadband by 2017.”

Now that Alistair Darling has confirmed the imposition of the broadband tax Point Topic takes a close look at what it could mean for the UK (originally published in July 2009).

Welcome to the latest issue of Point Topic’s Broadband Money Makers Update, a free newsletter covering broadband value-added services (BVAS) markets worldwide.

The latest broadband tariff report from Point Topic has just been released collating the data to end Q3 2009. With complete tariff data for over 2000 standalone offerings and almost 1000 bundles this report presents the most complete regular worldwide analysis available.

The top 10 broadband countries in the world have added over 9.3 million broadband lines in the 3 months to September 2009, representing an increase of 2.95% in the quarter. The remainder of the world grew by over 3.7% in the same period.

Now that the rollout of next-generation broadband access (NGA) is getting under way, many people need to know when it will arrive, area by area.

Point Topic’s new mapping of broadband geography shows how deep the digital divide is between the North and the South. We class 68 cities, towns and districts as having high broadband penetration, but only 3 of these are north and west of a line from the Wash to the Bristol Channel. Of the 60 with low penetration, only 6 are south of that line.

Fibre all the way to the premises (FTTP) will play a much bigger and earlier role in next-generation broadband in the UK than was assumed even a few months ago.

Broadband has continued to grow robustly through the last 18 months relative to other sectors, predicting what will happen next is becoming increasingly challenging.

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There were 444.3 million broadband subscribers by the end of Q2 2009. Net additions during the quarter totalled almost 13 million.

The Broadband Forum today announced the latest broadband and IPTV statistics in a press conference at Broadband World Forum-Europe.

Broadband is showing a healthier glow than expected in the UK, as in many countries around the world.

Cable and DSL fight back as fibre looms in their future.

The Government's Digital Britain report has proposed the target of a universal broadband service delivering at least 2 megabits per second (Mbps) throughout the UK.

According to the most recent data published in Point Topic’s Global Broadband Statistics service broadband lines continue to increase worldwide.

By the end of Q1 2009 there were 429.2 million broadband subscribers globally. There were 19.6 million new subscribers during the quarter.

IPTV subscribers totalled almost 24 million by the end of Q1 2009 (23.99 million), up 9.77 per cent on Q4 2008

broadband is continuing to offer more for your dollar every quarter according to the latest analysis from Point Topic.

Scotland has done more than any other part of the United Kingdom to bring broadband to its whole territory.

IP-VPNs are now dominant in business networking, and provide more reliability and security than going through the Internet. Enabling home working is one of the most important of these.

Welcome to the latest issue of Point Topic’s Broadband Money Makers Update, a free newsletter covering broadband value-added services (BVAS) markets worldwide.

Despite the world economic crisis, broadband numbers are actually growing a little faster than expected.

Broadband subscriptions in the UK exceeded expectations in the last 6 months of 2008 reaching 17.4 million by the end of the year and topping Point Topic’s forecasts by 0.2%.

Welcome to the latest issue of Point Topic's Broadband Money Makers Update, a free newsletter covering broadband value-added services (BVAS) markets worldwide.

There were 13.77 million broadband lines added in Q4 2008 taking the world total to 410.9 million lines.

There were 13.77 million broadband lines added in Q4 2008 taking the world total to 410.9 million lines.

Point Topic, in cooperation with Gavurin, has released a new website to help frame the current state of broadband in the UK.