About:
Company
Point Topic Ltd is a UK-based company founded in 1998. Our mission is to provide focused information on broadband communications services. Now the www.point-topic.com website is internationally recognised as one of the best sources on broadband. It provides subscribers with regularly updated online databases and reports about broadband services around the world. Summary information is available for free to any visitor to the site.
Point Topic is an independent company, backed by private investors. Point Topic has an agreement with DSL Forum, to provide statistics of DSL rollout worldwide. The statistics are published free of charge each quarter through the DSL Forum and Point Topic websites. We believe this is a valuable contribution to the development of the DSL and broadband industries.
Products
Point Topic carries a number of subscription services.
The Operator Source service includes in-depth reports produced from analysis of the profile data and further interviews. The service is based on profiles of over 300 major broadband operators around the world. Each profile lists the broadband services the operator provides, the prices charged, marketing strategies used, the progress of rollout and other background information. The operator profiles are updated every three months. Earlier profiles going back to 1999 are also available to subscribers in the archive.
Global Broadband Statistics provides broadband subscriber figures for over 300 operators in some 90 countries throughout the world by access technologies and various delivery channels like local loop unbundling, retail and wholesale purchase. Designed as an online database users are able to query the latest statistics and produce tailored reports across several variables.
The Point Topic Broadband Money Makers webservice was launched in September 2003. It profiles the value-added services which broadband operators are launching to encourage broadband take-up and generate more revenue per user. As well as profiling the lead suppliers of value added services like voice over IP and video on demand in the Application Source section of Broadband Money Makers.
UK Plus gives you a more detailed look at the UK market. Included in the service are additional ISP profiles, UK specific statistics (market share etc) and a twice monthly newsletter with news, ISP spotlights and analysis.
The BroadBand User Service brings together the BroadBand User Survey, BroadBand Neighbourhood and UK Plus to give unrivalled insight into the UK market. Based around rolling multi client surveys of business and consumer markets and combined with specific research and other information sources we have collated and analysed all the information you need to understand broadband customers and markets in the UK.
People
Oliver Johnson, CEO
Oliver Johnson leads the company as a whole and has responsibility for the quality and content of the Point Topic web services. He also runs Point Topic’s sales and marketing.
Oliver has been involved in online environments and development since the late 1980's and has planned and implemented a wide range of multimedia related projects including as a TV and video producer with credits for broadcast productions and early groundbreaking internet implementations.
He has worked as marketing and website manager for small to medium online retail organisations, as website producer for leading agencies and was senior producer for several internet and intranet projects for B2C and B2B projects for blue chip multinationals winning a number of industry awards.
He has a BSc in Maths and Economics from the University of London.
Tim Johnson, Chief Analyst
Tim Johnson is the founder and Publisher of Point Topic. He also founded Ovum, now a part of the Informa Group and previously the biggest independent IT and telecoms analysis group based in Europe.
He writes for the UK Plus service and takes overall responsibility for the analysis that Point Topic provides and it's R&D.
Tim Johnson is known as an expert in broadband developments around the world. He frequently speaks on this topic at conferences in Europe, Asia-Pacific and America. His expertise is based on long experience of new media, and the technologies which enable them.
His work has included in-depth studies of key technologies such as packet-switching and artificial intelligence, including natural language processing, of new media such as teletext and high-definition television, and of major markets such as data communications. Together with a strong group of colleagues he used this experience to recreate Ovum as a highly successful analyst company in 1985.
Tim also founded Look Multimedia, for which he produced a series of documentary and corporate videos for the computer industry, including the award winning Internet: the Business Case, as well as web sites and multimedia productions. His breadth of experience provides a strong foundation for Point Topic's focus on the broadband industry.
John Bosnell, Senior Analyst
John Bosnell is the Editor of the new Point Topic Broadband Money-Makers web service. Previously he was editor of Point Topic Operator Source from 1999, including production of six editions of the DSL Worldwide Directory. He has an in-depth knowledge of the offerings of broadband operators around the world and of the new value-added services which are now appearing.
John has a Masters degree in technical communication. He has worked in IT and telecoms research, analysis and marketing since 1996, both on IT video production at Look Multimedia, with Tim Johnson, and at Ovum.
Geoff Eagland, Chairman
Geoff Eagland is lead investor and Chairman of Point Topic Ltd. A successful entrepreneur, he built his company Envoy into one of the leading UK specialists in computer-telephony integration.