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VERIZON will continue to offer unlimited data on its fixed-line FIOS network as long as major investment is not required to keep up with demand, the US carrier’s CTO Tony Werner told an audience at the Broadband World Forum yesterday. While unlimited data plans are going the way of the dodo in most wireless markets, it is not yet of con- cern to Verizon for its fibre network. “The unlimited pricing scheme is not
something that we want to run from simply because we think metered is in our best interest. We think that for the foresee- able future the technology will allow us [to remain unmetered]. It depends on our in-
vestment requirements and if it is required that we will have to cover it.” Yukio Ito, senior vice president, service
infrastructure for Japan’s NTT Commu- nications, said that the problem facing the operator is that many younger Japanese people don’t want to own a fixed line as fast LTE gives them more flexibility, but that this puts huge pressure on its wireless network. The emphasis for NTT now is to reduce operating costs to enable it to continue to make profits despite ongoing downward pressure on consumer pricing. Addressing the challenge of upload speeds needing to increase to enable the
Regional broadband subscription figures Region
Subs Q1 2011
North America Western Europe
Eastern Europe Asia-Pacific
Latin America South and
East Asia Middle East
and Africa Total
*Note totals excludes satellite broadband
Top 20 Broadband Countries Country
2011Q4
China (All Territories) United States Japan
Germany
Russian Federation France
United Kingdom Korea, Republic of Brazil India Italy
Mexico Spain
Canada Turkey
Ukraine
Netherlands Poland
Australia
154,777,488 91,631,760 36,695,200 28,608,900 21,376,855 22,174,300 20,736,500 17,915,007 16,518,500 13,333,827 13,781,650 12,487,401 11,610,284 11,083,633 7,507,829 6,130,000 6,622,400 5,708,229 5,766,200
Taiwan, Province of China 5,589,000 2012Q1
161,204,152 93,264,503 37,012,100 28,958,600 22,161,900 22,353,700 21,093,600 18,096,027 17,082,500 13,697,791 13,870,650 12,740,353 11,777,921 11,166,932 7,777,829 6,494,500 6,719,500 5,803,689 5,827,800 5,695,597
IPTV subscription figures: top countries Country
China France United States
Korea, Republic of Japan
Germany Russia
Hong Kong Belgium
Netherlands 06 THURSDAY 18TH OCTOBER 2012 Q1 2012
15,150,000 12,375,000 9,353,737 5,275,243 3,808,846 2,108,700 1,648,000 1,355,000 1,254,000 1,062,000
2012Q2
167,014,744 94,000,180 37,292,400 29,555,500 22,830,900 22,632,200 21,269,300 18,103,946 17,867,925 13,991,600 13,926,782 12,883,763 12,076,137 11,221,852 7,847,829 6,794,000 6,791,800 5,930,769 5,892,400 5,740,083
% growth qtr 3.6% 0.8% 0.8% 2.1% 3.0% 1.2% 0.8% 0.0% 4.6% 2.1% 0.4% 1.1% 2.5% 0.5% 0.9% 4.6% 1.1% 2.2% 1.1% 0.8%
% growth yr 15.8% 5.0% 5.3% 6.3%
28.3% 3.8% 5.5% 2.8%
17.3% 14.0% 2.5% 8.1% 6.5% 4.3% 7.7%
27.9% 6.1% 7.9% 4.0% 7.3%
IPTV Subscribers 16,275,000
12,788,000 9,662,234 5,695,226 3,972,813 2,247,700 1,927,000 1,375,000 1,301,000 1,151,000
qtr add
5,810,592 735,677 280,300 596,900 669,000 278,500 175,700 7,919
785,425 293,809 56,132
143,410 298,216 54,920 70,000
299,500 72,300
127,080 64,600 44,486
yr add
22,757,330 4,465,961 1,882,000 1,749,200 5,040,000 825,100
1,118,100 498,825
2,635,225 1,722,569 337,132 966,323 732,650 459,467 560,627
1,481,000 390,900 436,025 228,500 388,083
% Growth 7%
3% 3% 8% 4% 7%
17% 1% 4% 8%
BROADBAND WORLD FORUM DAILY 2012 I
http://www.broadbandworldforum.com/
99,449,144 121,251,161
42,133,129 71,470,171 39,931,081 156,048,888
17,656,927 547,940,501
use of cloud services, Christian Eychene, VP, IT infrastructure Technologies & engi- neering, Orange-France Telecom, said that the answer lay in FTTH replacing ADSL, which was not suitable of service requiring high upload bandwidth. In response to a question asking when
operators would make good on the promise made many years ago that voice would eventually be free due to its low bandwidth requirements, Verizon’s Tony Werner sug- gested that for those consumers purchasing one of its Share Everything bundles, voice and messaging is already effectively free. “You can say it’s free or you can say it’s part
of the bundle, —nothing in life is free”. Finally, addressing the impact of how
much data will realistically move to the cloud, CTO of Cisco’s Service Provider division, David Ward said: “The utilisation of the cloud is still in its infancy. There’s so much more potential of what can be done. The capability to add additional services is almost limitless for enterprises.” But he also hinted at net neutrality issues hampering progress in that regard. “There are regula- tory issues—we don’t have a level playing field across all broadband technologies to enable operators to reduce cost by creating application differentiation.”
Subs Q1 2012
104,431,435 127,563,728
51,562,038 76,064,480 46,123,129 182,816,957
19,758,712 608,320,479 Subs Q2 2012
105,222,032 129,213,343
52,931,132 76,643,189 47,590,335 189,305,759
20,066,945 620,972,735*
Households Served
133,688,835 167,071,693
115,953,161 167,962,182 135,270,912 715,623,905
98,671,454 1,534,242,142
Source: broadband forum & Point Topic Broadband Household
Penetration 79%
77% 46% 46% 35%
20% 40%
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