Our popular broadband factsheet has
had its quarterly refresh to reflect the key changes in the various statistics
and facts that are part of the UK broadband scene.
Broadband Factsheet Q4/2012
To make it easier for people to use the content held within the factsheet,
we have broken out the various pages into jpeg image format, with 15 different
info graphics available for re-use in a variety of resolutions.
With the political target of the UK having the best broadband of all the
major countries in Europe for 2015, we thought it would be worth looking at
what services are likely to be available, and then working out what the
average speed will be for the UK in 2015.
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The resulting peak time speed of 36 Mbps is three times the figure
that Ofcom recently revealed the UK currently runs at, and most
of this rise is due to increasing take-up of FTTC services and the likelihood
that Virgin Media will run another speed upgrade programme in response to the
increasing competition from the full fibre products from Openreach (FTTP/FTTP
on demand) and the growth of FTTP services from a variety of altnet
providers.
We have been careful in the projection to take account of the variable
connection speeds for services such as ADSL2+ and FTTC. Fixed wireless and 4G
is not featured at this time in the estimate, 4G speeds are too much of an
unknown currently, and while fixed wireless is available to many areas of the
UK there is very little data on current take-up levels to estimate a figure for
2015. We will publish near projections as the quarters pass, and hopefully once
the local authority broadband projects start delivering we can nuance the
detail more, and maybe even provide regional figures.
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The total fixed broadband connection increase by 0.5M households sounds a little dubious. Do we know how this was calculated?
Is this only looking at households, or total number of fixed broadband?
Yes I know, I did all the calculations.
Total fixed Q3 was 21.3 million. We estimate 23 million for 2015. Leaving just 3.5m with no fixed solution.
In 9 months prior to q3, 0.5m were added, but as you get nearer 100% takeup things slow down.
Why don’t the columns of % figures on page 2 all add up to 100?
The 2% missing in VDSL column are in the USC area, as its so slow.
Typo in ADSL column accounts for 3%, only just seen it, but raw numbers OK. Also a 9% at 16Meg or faster missing.
So drawing not raw data issue.
That looks great apart from us who NEED a faster connection, have been told that we are a final third exchange and our council got no BDUK funding. We already have access to ADSL2+, but due to the line length, we still get less than 2Mbps. Is this it for us?