{"id":81023,"date":"2013-07-14T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=81023"},"modified":"2013-07-14T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T16:39:35","slug":"global-broadband-stats-ftth-making-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/81023-global-broadband-stats-ftth-making-waves.html","title":{"rendered":"Global broadband stats: FTTH making waves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Point Topic<\/a> has released its latest global subscriber numbers, showing that there were 655 million fixed broadband subscribers at the end of March 2013.<\/p>\n

In the first three months of the year over 12.5 million new broadband lines were added globally.<\/p>\n

Quarterly growth at the end of Q1 2013 was 2.0% and broadly consistent with growth in the previous three quarters.<\/p>\n

Compared to the same period last year, subscriber numbers have grown by nearly 8%.<\/p>\n

The following chart provides an overview of the growth of fixed broadband subscribers globally.<\/p>\n

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Global broadband statistics<\/p><\/div>\n

Broadband subscriber numbers by technology<\/h3>\n

Copper based technologies (DSL<\/a>, ADSL<\/a> and ADSL2+<\/a>) continue to be the dominant technologies for broadband access. However, DSL subscriber numbers continued to drop in 2013.<\/p>\n

Fibre technologies continue to dominate the overall trends in growth, with fibre (FTTH<\/a> and FTTx<\/a> combined) experiencing a growth of 9.8% within the quarter.<\/p>\n

The overall market share of fibre technologies is now 22%, making fibre the second most popular access technology after copper.<\/p>\n

The market share for cable remains static at around 19%, as both cable and fibre take subscribers from copper services.<\/p>\n

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Broadband growth by technology<\/p><\/div>\n

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Broadband prices over time<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Global Internet connection speeds slowed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Great news for broadband in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Surprising average mobile Internet speed in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Point Topic has unveiled the latest global subscriber numbers, revealing strong growth in fibre connections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73858,"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":[71,44,2614,891,889,35,2618,6847],"class_list":["post-81023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-adsl-2","tag-broadband-2","tag-dsl","tag-ftth","tag-fttx","tag-headline","tag-point-topic","tag-vdsl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81023"}],"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=81023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81045,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81023\/revisions\/81045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}