Broadband subscriptions in the UK exceeded expectations in the last 6 months of 2008 reaching 17.4 million by the end of the year and topping Point Topic’s forecasts by 0.2%.
“DSL operators had a stronger fourth quarter than projected, in particular the local loop unbundlers. While cable did well it didn’t exceed our forecasts,” says Tim [...]

IPTV market achieves 45% year on year growth – including 10% in last quarter – despite economic downturn
25 March 2009 – The Broadband Forum today announced the latest IPTV and broadband statistics, with the Western Europe, Africa and Middle East regions showing strong IPTV growth of 45 per cent throughout 2008. The report, prepared for [...]

A new website will help local government and community activists to get better broadband services in their areas. They will be able to use it to identify local needs and develop the strategies to bring “superband” speeds to the whole UK.
Visitors to the Point Topic “BroadBand Geography” site will be able to click on a [...]

Consumer broadband got started in the UK just 10 years ago, in the dying months of the last millennium, when BT and Virgin Media’s predecessors launched their first trial services. A few hundred lucky people were able to get 256 kilobits per second. Otherwise, everyone who was accessing the internet from home in1999 was using [...]

The Government’s Digital Britain report has proposed the target of a universal broadband service delivering at least 2 megabits per second (Mbps) throughout the UK. The idea has been heavily criticised as too little too late. But Point Topic’s specialist broadband research team strongly supports it.
We believe that investing to deliver 2Mbps could provide the [...]

Point Topic estimates that the UK added less than 200,000 new broadband lines in the fourth quarter of 2008. This is one more piece of news confirming the gloomy picture for the UK economy at the end of last year. Numbers were expected to be down anyway, but this is less than half [...]

 
As the world continues to face a mixture of financial meltdown, recession, the threat of deflation, global apocalypse and perhaps even alien invasion depending on which news feeds you subscribe to broadband continues to provide a selection of bright spots.
For a start it is still growing…mostly. In the 12 months to the end of September [...]

2007 was a healthy year for business services online.  According to the latest analysis from Point Topic revenues from broadband business services grew by 47% in the year to reach a run rate equivalent to $22.8 billion per year by December.
“Security still tops the league in revenue terms, but there has been real growth in [...]

With rapid growth in the last 10 years broadband has claimed the crown as the fastest adopted technology ever. More people have subscribed in a shorter time than bought mobile phones, computers, TVs, the walkman or any of the other revolutionary advances and devices since fire first debuted. Now Point Topic projects broadband will grow [...]

Rapid growth in subscribers and revenues has been a feature of many value added services enabled by broadband in the last few years. IPTV, video conferencing, software on demand and the like have all performed strongly. IP Telephony (IPT) stands out even in this company as a particular succe…so far.
According to data from Point Topic [...]