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Fibre and FWA are Two Fastest Growing Technologies in the OECD

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OECD confirms fibre and fixed wireless more modest share of 3.7% of total from 6GB to 46GB, with Latvia being
are now dominating rollouts which will fixed broadband subscriptions. the OECD leader.
make the coming overbuild crunch Cable accounts for 30.5% of overall
potentially more painful for some connections while satellite, which Mobile doing well as well
service providers grew 11% over the last three years, Despite an already very high mobile
still only represents 0.7% of fixed broadband penetration in the OECD
The OECD’s latest broadband broadband subscribers. area, overall mobile subscriptions
numbers show that fibre and fixed continued to grow by 4.6% over the
wireless access (FWA) have seen the Fibre penetration strong last year, which totalled 1.8 billion as of
strongest growth in fixed broadband Nine OECD countries have more June 2023, up from 1.74 billion a year
technologies in three years. Given that than 70% of fibre connections over earlier. Mobile broadband penetration
the organisation’s numbers only cover total broadband, with Korea, Japan, is highest in Japan, Estonia, the United
up to the end of June 23, it reveals Iceland, Spain leading the way with States and Finland, with subscriptions
how quickly access technologies are the highest fibre penetration rates of per 100 inhabitants at 200%, 192%,
changing and while some countries 89%, 86%, 85% and 84%, respectively. 183% and 161%, respectively. The share
are busy overbuilding, others are The highest fibre growth rates are of 5G in total mobile broadband
being left behind in the rush. in Europe, with Austria and Belgium subscriptions is 23% on average for
having growth rates of 75% and 73% the OECD countries that provided this
Fibre subscriptions have increased over the last year, closely followed by data.
by 56% between June 2020 to June Mexico with a growth in fibre of 68%.
2023, and FWA subscriptions have Two other Latin American countries Machine-to-machine (M2M) SIM
increased by 64%. The United States are in the top seven: Costa Rica and cards grew 14% increase in one year.
(252%), Estonia (153%), Norway (139%) Colombia with fibre growth rates of The two leading countries are Sweden
and Spain (118%) led this FWA growth. 42% and 34%, respectively. with 238 M2M SIM cards per 100
At the same time, DSL has declined inhabitants and Iceland (203),
24%, now only representing 22% of Meanwhile, mobile data usage per followed by Austria (179), the
total broadband connections. subscription grew substantially by Netherlands (93) and Norway (76).
Fibre, which has been the dominant 28% in one year passing from 10.GB to Both Sweden and Iceland issue M2M
technology since 2021, amounts to 41% 13 GB per subscription per month in SIM cards for international use.
of total fixed broadband subscriptions OECD countries. The amount of data
in June 2023. FWA still represents a consumed in countries vary greatly

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