Monday, September 26, 2022

Home Broadband Costs Keep Falling

In the twelve months to the close of the second quarter of  2022, global fixed-line home broadband subscribers saw their average monthly charges decrease by four percent on copper, cable and fiber-to-home based tariffs, says Point Topic.

source: Point Topic 


Across the three technologies the average bandwidth increased by 22 percent year-on-year. 


source: Point Topic 


Still, the typical cost of each megabit-per-second unit of capacity was markedly lower on hybrid fiber coax and fiber to home networks, compared to slower copper-access networks. In substantial part, that is because of the vast difference in capacity between copper and other networks. 


As speed climbs, cost-per-bit falls. 


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