EU broadband penetration grows to 22.5% of population

bealtine

EU broadband penetration grows to 22.5% of population Thursday 5 March 2009

EU broadband penetration rose to 110.5 million users or 22.5 percent of the population in September 2008, according to industry association ECTA's latest Broadband Scorecard. This represents an increase of 9 percent over six months and 20 percent from a year earlier. The highest penetration rates were recorded in Denmark (37.5%) and Netherlands (36.3%) followed by Sweden, Finland and the UK. The lowest penetration rates at just above 10 percent were recorded in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia. The highest growth rates over the full year were seen in Greece, Cyprus and Malta. Additional competitive impetus from local loop unbundling was particularly pronounced in Greece and Cyprus. Growth rates began to slow in several of the leading countries including Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands and the UK, suggesting market maturity. Some countries with lower absolute take-up levels also experienced slow growth including Spain, Italy and Austria. Fibre penetration was 0.3 percent on average across Europe. However some countries had significantly higher fibre penetration including Sweden (5.6% of the population) and Estonia (4.9%) and Lithuania (4.2%). Incumbents retained 50 percent of the total retail broadband market, or 45 percent if resale is excluded. The source of most competition in the EU is unbundling of the local loop (44% of all lines supplied by competitors), followed by cable and other parallel infrastructures (36%) with resale and 'bitstream' access accounting for the remainder.

Sponge Bob

Here in full ( spreadsheet)

http://www.ectaportal.com/en/upload/File/Broadband_Scorecards/Q3_2008/BBScQ308_final.xls

Thraktor

The spreadsheet lists Ireland as having 6,322 FTTH/FTTB connections. Where are they?

Sponge Bob

Mainly Dublin apartment blocks, eg Magnet and Smart

crawler

bealtine wrote: »

EU broadband penetration grows to 22.5% of population Thursday 5 March 2009

EU broadband penetration rose to 110.5 million users ......The source of most competition in the EU is unbundling of the local loop (44% of all lines supplied by competitors), followed by cable and other parallel infrastructures (36%) with resale and 'bitstream' access accounting for the remainder.

I genuinely find it very difficult to read this - this could easily be replicated here only for the light touch regulation eircom enjoy, by their own admission!

Sadly, we are going in the opposite direction and as of the same period as the report quoted Q3 2008, eircom's market share is actually increasing. See ComReg
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg08101.pdf (Page 13)

cgarvey

The (working) link for the ComReg report is here (PDF).

watty

Thraktor wrote: »

The spreadsheet lists Ireland as having 6,322 FTTH/FTTB connections. Where are they?

Ending in the box outside Crawler's office

No-one else has access to these?

(?= not sure and crawler knows)

crawler

cgarvey wrote: »

The (working) link for the ComReg report is here (PDF).

My bad (typing too quickly out of anger!) - original fixed now

bealtine

Thraktor wrote: »

The spreadsheet lists Ireland as having 6,322 FTTH/FTTB connections. Where are they?

Good catch...Comreg lump Sat and FTTH together as one category, so that could be the source of the confusion...

Thraktor

bealtine wrote: »

Good catch...Comreg lump Sat and FTTH together as one category, so that could be the source of the confusion...

How on earth could they consider Sat and FTTH to be comparable? They're about as different as telecoms technologies get. Do Comreg explicitly try to hire people who know nothing about the subject to handle their stats?

crawler wrote:

I genuinely find it very difficult to read this - this could easily be replicated here only for the light touch regulation eircom enjoy, by their own admission!

Sadly, we are going in the opposite direction and as of the same period as the report quoted Q3 2008, eircom's market share is actually increasing. See ComReg
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/pub...omReg08101.pdf (Page 13)

Actually, have a look at page 26, the percentage of lines where DSL is provided via LLU has actually decreased by nearly half over the last two years. The graph on page 28 isn't exactly the most flattering either.

watty

For ordinary readers
Fibre: 100Mbps per user possible, < 5ms latency and you could host a Data Centre.
VSAT (satellite): 1 to 3Mbps typical, minimum 790ms Latency and usually T&C forbid hosting of any kind.

So are 3,500 of the 6,500 FTTx actually VSAT and not fibre at all?