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Research Round-up January 2025

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New This Month: Southampton (Hampshire) and Charnwood (Leicestershire) break into the top 10 FTTP premises passed in Q4 2024, driven by Toob and Glide’s expansion in Southampton and nexfibre’s growing footprint in Charnwood (Figure 1).


Why It Matters: Rising competition in full fibre pricing - Toob leads on affordability against VMO2 in Southampton, while ISPs in Charnwood can leverage nexfibre’s expanding network to undercut rivals.


Figure 1. Top ten Local Authorities FTTP premises added in Q4 2024.  Source:  Point Topic.
Figure 1. Top ten Local Authorities FTTP premises added in Q4 2024.  Source:  Point Topic.

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Summary and key points

 

In Q3 2024, global fixed broadband connections reached 1.84 billion, as we recorded a healthy quarterly growth of 1.39%.  Broadband subscriptions declined in 13 countries, down from 18 in Q2 2024. Some of these markets have high mobile subscriber penetration, while others are experiencing economic headwinds or are already highly saturated markets, for example, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Others are still in the midst of conflict (Israel, Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan).


  • The highest growth in Q3 2024 came from the developing and least saturated markets.

  • India was at the top of the largest 20 fixed broadband markets with a  4.91% growth rate q-o-q.

  • The share of FTTH/B in the total fixed broadband subscriptions increased further and stood at 71.35% (Figure 1). Broadband connections based on other technologies saw their market shares shrink again, except for satellite and fixed wireless.


    Figure 1. Quarterly growth in fibre broadband subscribers around the world. Source: Point Topic.
    Figure 1. Quarterly growth in fibre broadband subscribers around the world. Source: Point Topic.

  • Year-on-year, FTTH/B connections grew by 8%. Satellite and FWA saw annual growth as well (+36.4% and +10.5% respectively), with the former mainly driven by Starlink (Figure 2).

  • Among the largest twenty markets, all saw fixed broadband subscriber growth in Q3 2024. The average growth in the 20 markets was 1.12%, compared to 0.93% in Q2 2024.

  • The highest FTTH/B broadband subscriber growth rates in markets with at least 0.5m fibre connections were in Greece, Peru and Algeria.


Figure 2. Estimates of Starlink satellite broadband figures (Top 20 markets). Source: Point Topic.
Figure 2. Estimates of Starlink satellite broadband figures (Top 20 markets). Source: Point Topic.

In the context of limited public availability of the official Starlink subscriber data, our estimates are based on the service launch dates and countries’ demographic and other characteristics. Our total estimated Q3 2024 figure for Starlink subscribers in the countries where we cover the operator is 3.2 million, up from 2.7 million in Q2 2024.


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Key January telecoms sector news

BT Group News

Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) News

CityFibre (CF) News

Independent Operators (Altnets) News

Other News

 


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