Europe - Broadband Market Insights and Statistics

Synopsis

The European broadband market has seen a considerable evolution during the last year, epitomised by the migration to higher-data services and from copper-based networks to fibre. Growth in many markets slowed in 2010 as a result of high broadband penetration, while markets in the less developed southern and eastern countries have sought to catch up with their northern counterparts. Growth is still driven by intra-and inter-platform competition and by regulatory measures to improve access to incumbent networks. Technological developments in the cable, DSL and fibre platforms have helped transform broadband from a PC-based service to a fundamental component of many households’ entertainment, through services such as VoD and IPTV. The main growth driver is now fibre, particular with FttH which has emerged as the preferred albeit more costly architecture, followed by cable and DSL. Cable networks have seen considerable subscriber growth as a result of operator investment in DOSCSIS3.0 technology, and the widespread deployment of data services providing up to 120Mb/s. This report presents statistics and analysis on Europe’s fixed-line broadband market in 2011, including developments in ADSL, cable and fibre technologies, and noting the status of EU and government policies to encourage broadband take-up to the end of the decade.

Key developments: state aid for broadband quadruples in 2010 year-on-year to €1.8 billion; broadband as universal service by 2013; EC’s targets at least 50% of households to have 100Mb/s; EC promoting broadband as a universal service; Digital Agenda for economic recovery; DSL trials providing 700Mb/s; HFC networks taking larger share of super-fast connections; decline of DSL in many markets as customers defect to mobile broadband options and more widely available FttH. 

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Europe’s broadband market
  • 2.1 Overview
    • 2.1.1 Stronger Internet base
    • 2.1.2 European broadband statistics
    • 2.1.3 Broadband delivery
    • 2.1.4 Next Generation Access (NGA)
  • 2.2 Market forecasts
• 3. Analysis of Europe’s broadband market
  • 3.1 Regulatory and government support
    • 3.1.1 European Commission support
    • 3.1.2 Broadband promoting employment
  • 3.2 Wholesale access
    • 3.2.1 Local Loop Unbundling (LLU)
    • 3.2.2 Competition in the broadband market
• 4. Cable broadband in Europe
  • 4.1 Standards
  • 4.2 Analysis of Europe’s cable broadband market
    • 4.2.1 Market players
• 5. Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) in Europe
  • 5.1 Market overview
  • 5.2 Availability
  • 5.3 Costs
  • 5.4 Naked DSL
  • 5.5 ADSL2+
  • 5.6 VDSL
• 6. Fibre
• 7. Related reports

• Table 1 – Broadband lines, penetration and new lines per day – 2003 - 2011
• Table 2 – Incumbents’ broadband market share – 2010
• Table 3 – Internet users, growth and penetration – 2009 - 2010
• Table 4 – Broadband retail lines, total, DSL and other – Jan 2010
• Table 5 – Broadband penetration by technology – Jun 2010
• Table 6 – Broadband penetration by country – 2005 – 2008; 2010
• Table 7 – The average home will soon require 50Mb/s to the home – Why?
• Table 8 – Broadband market share by technology – 2007 - 2010
• Table 9 – Broadband offerings by technology – 2008 - 2009
• Table 10 – Broadband market share by competition – August 2008
• Table 11 – Average broadband speeds select countries – September 2008
• Table 12 – Average monthly LLU and shared access cost in Europe – 2004 - 2009
• Table 13 – New entrant share of DSL and broadband lines – 2004 - 2010
• Table 14 – Broadband access lines by type and country – Jan 2010
• Table 15 – Broadband access lines by type and country – Jan 2010
• Table 16 – New entrants’ DSL lines by access type – Jan 2010
• Table 17 – Incumbents’ broadband market share – 2002 - 2012
• Table 18 – Cable broadband penetration by country – 2010
• Table 19 – Cable modem subscribers in select countries – 2003 - 2008
• Table 20 – Incumbents’ share of DSL lines – Jan 2010
• Table 21 – Cost per megabit by country – 2010

• Exhibit 1 –DSL services and equivalent data rates - 2011