{"id":162748,"date":"2016-05-24T07:58:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T05:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=162748"},"modified":"2016-05-24T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T06:00:00","slug":"adsl-is-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/162748-adsl-is-dying.html","title":{"rendered":"ADSL is dying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Point Topic has released its Global Broadband Subscribers report for Q4 2015, which reveals\u00a0that copper-based broadband is rapidly declining.<\/p>\n

The report shows that the decline in copper-based broadband subscriber numbers is accelerating – from 15% in Q3 2015 to nearly 19% in Q4.<\/p>\n

Copper-based technologies (DSL, ADSL, and ADSL2+) also no longer have the dominant share worldwide.<\/p>\n

The decline in ADSL is partly fuelled by the increase in fibre connections. \u201cThis quarter we observed an annual growth rate of over 60% for FTTH globally,\u201d said Point Topic.<\/p>\n

In terms of any connection with fibre in the local loop, there are now more fibre infrastructure lines in the ground than end-to-end copper.<\/p>\n

There are also more FTTH broadband subscribers worldwide than those using cable broadband technologies.<\/p>\n

The charts below show the breakdown of broadband subscribers globally, based on technology.<\/p>\n

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Copper-based broadband access \u2013 most notably ADSL \u2013 is rapidly declining, while FTTH is showing excellent growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":142232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[71,891,35],"class_list":["post-162748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-adsl-2","tag-ftth","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162770,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162748\/revisions\/162770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}