Research Round-up May 2025
- Veronica Speiser
- 5 hours ago
- 7 min read
Point Topic’s May publications: Building Digital Britain: Policy & Progress 2024 – 2025; European Broadband Operators and Tariffs Benchmark Report, Q1 2025
Key publication of the month:
Summary and key points:
In Q4 2024, global fixed broadband connections reached 1.5 billion, with quarterly growth of 0.91%, down from 1.44% in Q3 2024. Broadband subscriptions[1] declined in 14 countries[2], up from 13 in Q3 2024.
India was at the top of the largest 20 fixed broadband markets with a 5.27 % quarterly growth rate.
The share of FTTH/B in the total fixed broadband subscriptions increased further and stood at 71.49%. Broadband connections based on other technologies saw their market
Year-on-year, FTTH/B connections grew by 7.4%. Satellite and FWA saw an even higher annual growth (52.5% and 27.3% respectively), with the former mainly driven by Starlink.
Among the largest twenty markets all except Italy saw fixed broadband subscriber growth in Q4 2024. The average growth in the 20 markets was 1.12%, compared to 1.25% in Q3 2024.
The highest FTTH/B broadband subscriber growth rates in markets with at least 0.5m fibre connections were in Egypt, Venezuela, the UK, Greece and Algeria, all in double figures.
In Q4 2024, global fixed broadband subscribers increased by 0.91%, slightly exceeding 1.5 billion. The growth rate was the second lowest in the last two years, but slightly higher than in the respective quarter of 2023.
South and East Asia continues to claim the largest share of global fixed broadband subscribers, having increased it slightly in Q4 2024 to 50.99% (Table 1).
[1] Whenever we refer to ‘broadband’ in this report, we mean fixed broadband. Also, ‘subscriptions’ and ‘connections’ are used interchangeably.
[2] There may be restatements in the coming quarter/s and single-period data should be viewed in that light. A decline in some markets can be due to changes in the methodology used by national regulatory authorities.
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