What’s the future for broadband?
December 26, 2007
According to a recent report the growth of broadband has stabilised over the past year, but by 2012 the UK could still have around 21 million broadband customers. The report was compiled by Point Topic, and has shown the steadier take up of broadband services over the past couple of quarters, partly because the majority of consumers now already have this service. Over recent years the popularity of broadband services has rocketed, with an increase in the number of providers coupled with value for money on broadband packages contributing to its popularity.
The report states that in five years time by 2012 there will be two million business broadband connections in the UK and a further nineteen million residential broadband connections. Over the past two quarters the level of broadband connections being installed has become far steadier, and these figures are based on take up over the past two quarters.
During the second quarter of the year there were around 330,000 new broadband installations, according to the report, and during the third quarter this rose slightly to 550,000. These figures were around half the number of installations seen in the previous two quarters. Experts from Point Topic state that the reason for the drop in numbers is because there are now far fewer businesses and households on dial up rather than broadband. This means that there are fewer consumers left to still have broadband services installed.
One industry official stated: ‘We forecast that about 4% of the remaining households without internet access will convert each year. That’s roughly the average for the past two years as a whole, but much better than in the last few quarters - so it implies improved performance by the industry.’
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