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).

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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.

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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%.

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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.

There could be over four million British homes and businesses on high-speed fibre broadband within five years.

Consumer broadband got started in the UK just 10 years ago, in the dying months of the last millennium, when BT and Virgin Media’s predecessors launched their first trial services.

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Recession has now hit the UK broadband market hard. Point Topic estimates that the UK added only about 200,000 broadband lines in the last quarter of 2008

As the world continues to face a mixture of financial meltdown, recession, the threat of deflation, global apocalypse and perhaps even alien invasion depending on which news feeds you subscribe to broadband continues to provide a selection of bright spots.

Quarterly report on broadband statistics worldwide

Welcome to issue number 26 of Point Topic’s Broadband Money Makers Update, a free newsletter covering broadband value-added services (BVAS) markets worldwide.

The latest analysis from Point Topic on average tariffs and packages on offer for broadband worldwide gives a general story of increasing speed and decreasing prices.

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Broadband stats report for Q2 2008

After resisting the effects of economic slowdown for months, UK broadband has finally been hit by the arrival of a real recession.

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