DSL sucks, the future of broadband is fibre

16 May 2015
Average global price of fibre versus cable and DSL

The average cost per megabit of residential broadband continues to fall for services delivered over cable and fibre networks. This is according to Point Topic’s Q1 2015 broadband tariff trends report.

The report shows how the average cost per Mbps for business and residential broadband services has changed over time.

While fibre and cable prices continue to decline, services delivered over copper networks follow a more erratic path and have actually risen in the last two quarters.

More importantly, copper broadband services have been consistently higher than cable and fibre equivalents over the last five years.

Copper broadband services tend to be costliest where there is no competition in the market from other networks.

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Residential broadband cost-per-megabit by technology over time – Image courtesy of MyBroadband.

This article originally appeared on MyBroadband and is republished with permission.

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  1. Greg Lindstrom
    21.05.2015 at 06:20

    i have lte and fibre and lte pings are crap as are all wireless signals. even though im connecting to fibre through my wifi.

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