Taken from The Broadband Coverage in Europe 2023 Report - a study prepared for the European Commission DG Communications Networks, Content & Technology
by OMDIA and Point Topic Ltd.
National coverage by broadband technology
Greece again recorded the lowest coverage among member states in the fixed VHCN (combined FTTP & DOCSIS 3.1) category. With no cable networks in the country, high-speed broadband services relied on FTTP deployment which remained slow and concentrated solely on urban areas. Despite an increase of 10.6 percentage points, by mid-2023, only 38.4% of Greek households had access to FTTP services, while rural coverage remained at 0.0%.
Greece also now lags the EU average on both national and rural levels in terms of total fixed broadband coverage, with 97.3% and 90.9% of households covered, respectively. In the NGA category 88.9% of Greek households had access to high-speed broadband services by mid-2023, including over half of rural homes (54.9%). Both these figures are below the EU average, especially at rural level.
Looking at individual technologies, coverage of FTTP continued to grow significantly in Greece, from 27.8% to 38.4%. But DSL remained the most prevalent fixed broadband technology, with 96.0% of households covered at the end of June 2023. In terms of NGA technologies, VDSL and VDSL2 Vectoring remained the most widely accessible services in Greece, with 77.1% and 54.9% of homes passed, respectively. Coverage of both these technologies increased only slightly, by 0.8 p.p. and 0.4 p.p. respectively, as operators turned their focus to FTTP rollout. No coverage of FWA was reported in this year’s study.
Greece’s three mobile network operators have all launched commercial 5G services, and overall coverage increased by 12.4 p.p. to reached 98.1% by June 2023, ahead of the EU average. 5G coverage using the 3.4–3.8 GHz band grew more strongly, by 22.0 p.p. and also outstrips the EU average, at 58.8% of households.
As of June 2023, FTTP and cable (DOCSIS 3.0 and 3.1) remained absent from rural Greek regions, meaning that DSL services were the only available choice for wireline broadband. DSL coverage reached nine in ten rural households (90.9%), well ahead of the EU as a whole. Rural VDSL coverage increased by 3.7 p.p. in the year, and as of June 2023, over half (54.9%) of rural households were able to access VDSL services, while VDSL2 Vectoring coverage also grew fractionally and covered one tenth (10.0%) of rural households.
By June 2023 more than nine in ten rural households (92.1%) had access to 5G networks, ahead of the EU average figure (73.7%). But rural coverage of 5G using the 3.4–3.8 GHz band was well below the EU average, at 6.2%, up by only 2.0 p.p. since 2022.
Regional coverage by broadband technology
Looking at Greek regions, only four regions scored higher than 65% coverage of fixed VHCN (FTTP & DOCSIS 3.1) – Thessaloniki and parts of the capital, Athens. A further five regions surpassed the 35% threshold, but elsewhere the low coverage of FTTP and absence of any cable networks meant that coverage remained below 35%.
Since there are no DOCSIS 3.1 services in Greece, the FTTP coverage is identical to coverage for the fixed VHCN (FTTP & DOCSIS 3.1) combined category.
The absence of any rural fibre coverage meant that rural coverage for fixed VHCN (FTTP & DOCSIS 3.1) was zero for all regions of Greece in 2023.
Data tables for Greece
Note: The 2023 figures represent the state of broadband coverage at the end of June 2023. The 2022 (end of June) and 2021 (end of June) figures are drawn from the previous studies conducted by IHS Markit, Omdia, and Point Topic.
All restatements are highlighted in italics.
Taken from The Broadband Coverage in Europe 2023 Report - a study prepared for the European Commission DG Communications Networks, Content & Technology
by OMDIA and Point Topic Ltd.
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