Fibre optic broadband is apparently not only a speedy and more reliable way to browse the web, but the coming of the services will apparently create an additional 26,000 new jobs, a recent report has predicted.
In fact, according to the Social Study 2012 – The Economic Impact of BT in London, over the next 15 years, fibre optic broadband would bring the UK economy an additional £20bn, as it could boost different sectors including home-based online businesses.
The report looked at how fibre optic broadband can “positively contribute” to and…
Geoff Slaughter - 30 March 2012 | comments. Read more
Broadband and the online industry in general is going strong in the UK, it seems.
According to a recent report conducted by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), it will see a healthy annual growth of 11 per cent, and this year it already has contributed roughly 8 per cent, or £121bn to the UK economy’s GDP (Gross Domestic product).
This means that the UK’s e-commerce sector is the biggest one out of all G20 countries, and as mentioned earlier, due to the healthy growth, it will see a boost to £221bn…
Geoff Slaughter - 19 March 2012 | comments. Read more
Moments ago the FTTH Council Europe has released stats which would show how fast (or indeed slow) the world is embracing true fibre optic broadband (fibre-to-the-home/premises).
As a quick reminder, FTTH technology allows fibre to flow directly to a consumer’s doorstep, allowing the speeds to reach new heights. In the UK at the moment, BT provides speeds of up to 110Mbps based on the earlier-mentioned solution, and intends to speed those up to 300Mbps.
Coming back to the study, it looked at countries which had at least 1 per cent covered…
Edita Lozovska - 17 February 2012 | comments. Read more
It seems that IPTV is a growing trend in Europe and it’s all thanks to the so-called hybrid superfast broadband services – FTTC.
As a quick reminder, while FTTH technology delivers fibre straight to the customers’ doorsteps, FTTC stands for fibre-to-the-cabinet and provides broadband to the cabinet first and only then to the user’s household or business. This compromises the speed, however it is still significantly faster than what the ye old ADSL can offer.
According to Point Topic and Broadband Forum, Europe has become the leading market for IPTV services…
Edita Lozovska - 16 February 2012 | comments. Read more
According to the latest stats provided by the DigiWorld Institute, roughly a third of homes globally who have access to fibre broadband (both FTTP and FTTC) decide to get the services.
Let’s talk numbers, at the moment 361.68m premises worldwide have access to fibre and 112.6m have already signed up to use it.
In addition, the report stated that sole FTTH uptake grew rapidly as well – as a quick reminder, FTTH or FTTP stands for fibre-to-the-home/premises and delivers the service directly to a customer’s home rather than through a street…
Geoff Slaughter - 15 February 2012 | comments. Read more
Have you ever wondered how much money do we spend on communications such as broadband, phone and TV during our whole lifetime?
TalkTalk certainly has. The ISP decided to grab its calculator only to find that on average consumers spent £65,564.94 in a lifetime or £970 per year – which correlated with an average age of 68 years.
The figure mentioned above included roughly all our communication needs such as phone calls, home broadband, text messages (SMS), mobile broadband, insurance, buying and upgrading mobiles, among others.
TalkTalk’s Director of Product Management, Alex…
Edita Lozovska - 21 December 2011 | comments. Read more
Telecoms watchdog, Ofcom, has today revealed the findings of its yearly Communications Market Report (ICMR) which summarised the broadband, phone and TV situation across 17 countries.
According to the report, fibre optic broadband availability isn’t bad in the UK at all, in fact it is more or less the same like in other European countries – however the take up rate is lacking.
Let’s talk numbers – according to Ofcom, roughly 59 per cent of UK homes had access to fibre optic broadband, either FTTC or FTTP – be it via…
Edita Lozovska - 14 December 2011 | comments. Read more
Ofcom has released its yearly Consumer Experience report moments ago today and it seems that fixed line broadband keeps users satisfied at a rate of 80 per cent – which has not changed drastically since last year.
Another piece of good news is that the average monthly spend on all comms services fell by £3 from £96.42 to £93.61.
Another finding was that consumers seemed to be a tad happier about the download speeds they were getting, seen as 35 per cent saw their expected speeds as too slow in 2010,…
Edita Lozovska - 7 December 2011 | comments. Read more
It seems that Londoners suffered from a brand new disease also known as e-anxiety.
In more detail, a fresh study conducted by Sky Broadband has found that 57 per cent of Londoners felt worried and uncomfortable when they could not check their Facebook accounts or emails.
It also seems that women (52 per cent) were more likely to suffer from this digital disease than men (46 per cent), despite the fact that the latter spend more time online (26 per cent admitted spending six hours online on a daily basis).
In addition,…
Edita Lozovska - 25 November 2011 | comments. Read more
It seems that we are indeed interested in broadband-related products such as IPTV and VoIP as these on average accounted for roughly 37 per cent of basic broadband subscription charges throughout 2010.
According to Point Topic’s calculator, the so-called Broadband Value-Added Services have brought an additional £38.5bn at the end of last year.
John Bosnell, Senior Analyst at Point Topic, said:
“The trend we’ve observed since 2003 reflects the fact that more people are doing more things using their broadband connection.
“We estimate that at the end of 2010 each broadband line supported…
Chris Mizon - 23 November 2011 | comments. Read more
