An estimated 40 million new broadband subscribers lashed on
the rave of the moment technology, just as 14.1 per cent growth was made in Internet
Protocol Television (IPTV) marking a year of steady growth, ITRealms.
According an official press statement made available to ITRealms, this figure was achieved in
2013, raking total broadband lines to 678.6 million world-wide.
ITRealms notes
that the overall figures showed steady growth but slowing as older markets
reach saturation, hence, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is still the predominant
technology, but fiber continues to outpace all access types in new deployments.
The Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is nearing the 100
million subscriber threshold with 21 per cent growth in 2013 and 17 million new
subscribers taking the total to 96 million at year end 2013.
As affirmed by Broadband Forum in its latest newsletter, the
update shows a slowing but steady growth in broadband subscribers with some significant
trends in technology and regional growth in new markets.
The figures, prepared by Point Topic as sighted by ITRealms, highlighted the addition of
over 40 million new users world-wide, an annual increase of 6.15 per cent,
bringing the global total up to 678,455,893m.
Speaking at the Fixed Access Networks Summit in Berlin,
Germany, last week, the Broadband
Forum chief executive officer, Robin Mersh, said that these
figures for 2013 paints an extremely interesting picture both regionally and in
terms of the changes in technology choices as some markets reach saturation and
others started their digital journey.
“They are a great illustration of the ‘second age of broadband
access,’ with existing customers demanding more bandwidth and operators
introducing new technologies,” he said.
In addition, he said, the figures show that copper-based
technologies such as DSL, Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) and
ADSL2plus continue to be dominant, although fiber-based technologies, which
include Very-high-bit-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL) and VDSL2 are taking
a firmer
grip and with growth rates of 17.6 per cent overall.
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