Fixed Broadband Subscribers to Top 1 Billion Globally This Year, Kagan Says

Fixed broadband subscribers should top a billion by year's end on fiber connections growth in Asia Pacific, particularly China, Kagan said Monday. It said 2018 ended with 974.7 million subscriptions and a household penetration rate of 45.5 percent. It said household penetration rates should top 50 percent by 2025. Fiber-to-the-premises was the fastest-growing broadband platform, up 14 percent in 2018, said Kagan. It said China and the U.S. are "by far" the largest fixed broadband markets, with China representing 40.1 percent of the global total and 74.4 percent of Asian broadband subscribers due to the fiber deployments in its national Broadband China project. It said DSL is the dominant multichannel platform in Western Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with cable dominating in North America and Latin America and fiber subscriptions having overtaken DSL in Asia and Eastern Europe.