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Broadband Adoption Recovers From Summer Doldrums With summer firmly in the Northern Hemisphere's rear-view mirror, fixed broadband subscriber installations picked up in the third quarter, a new study found. It's customary for second-quarter growth to stall, according to "Trends on Global Broadband Subscribers: Q3 2016," by Point Topic. And 2016 was no exception: In the third quarter, which ended Sept. 31, the quarterly growth of fixed broadband subscribers recovered and hit 2.25%, with 822.7 million global fixed broadband subscribers, the report said. In the prior quarter, growth stood only at 1.39%, found Point Topic Ltd. By comparison, third quarter of 2015 broadband subscriber growth reached 2.02%, according to the research firm.
Ups & Downs of Broadband Subscriptions
Broadband Subscription Growth Around the World
When traditionally undersaturated markets such as Africa undergo even small upticks in adoption, the growth rate percentage is high due to the lower base. But Africa's 3.61% quarterly increase also demonstrates several ongoing broadband initiatives within the continent, including satellite-powered broadband from Eutelsat and Yahsat, Link Africa fiber optic networks and Mauritius Telecom's Vision 2030 focus on affordable FTTH to almost all homes in Mauritius.
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In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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