| NOTAS: | This study was carried out for the European Commission by IHS Markit and Point Topic
"The Broadband Coverage in Europe study is designed to monitor the progress of EU Member States towards the specific broadband coverage objectives set out in the Digital Agenda for Europe – namely: ‘Universal Broadband Coverage with speeds at least 30 Mbps by 2020’ and ‘Broadband Coverage of 50% of households with speeds at least 100 Mbps by 2020’. - In 2016, DG CONNECT selected IHS Markit in partnership with Point Topic to run the three-year project. The research team surveyed NRAs and telecommunications groups across each participating state to compile the requisite information. Both IHS Markit as well as Point Topic have previously conducted the broadband coverage research. Point Topic was the incumbent provider introducing the original research methodology in the period 2010-2012. IHS Markit (in cooperation with VVA) delivered the study from 2013-2015 and adopted similar data collection and analysis methods to those implemented by Point Topic in order to ensure comparability of datasets for the purposes of time-series assessment. - The collected data reflects the situation at the end of June 2018 compared to the situation at the end of June 2017. In editions of the study prior to 2015, the collected data reflected the situation at the end-of-year (i.e. end of December). The timeline of the data collection for the 2015 edition of the BCE study was moved forward in order to align reporting of the broadband coverage data with the publications of the Digital Economy and Society Index and the European Semester related country assessments. - This report covers 31 countries across Europe – the EU28, plus Norway, Iceland and Switzerland, and analyses the availability of nine broadband access technologies (DSL, VDSL, cable modem, DOCSIS 3.0, FTTP, WiMAX, HSPA, LTE and satellite) across each market, at national and rural levels. In addition, three combination categories indicating the availability of one or more forms of broadband coverage are also published. These cover overall fixed and mobile broadband availability, fixed broadband availability and next generation access (NGA) availability. Since the 2017 iteration of the study, DG CONNECT also requested a fourth combination coverage category to be estimated on a national level, establishing overall coverage of FTTP and DOCSIS 3.0 technologies. A rural estimation for overall FTTP and DOCSIS 3.0 coverage has been added in this year’s edition of the study." |
