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Broadband Growth Tumbles
News Point Topic, an Internet connectivity research company, claims market turmoil is causing the slow growth in broadband adoption, which accelerated by only 730,000 in the second quarter of 2006. Point Topic estimates the total number of broadband...
[August 7, 2006, 9:50]
UK Finally Europe's Top Dog For Broadband
News The UK is now Europe’s largest broadband market, according to figures released by analyst firm Point Topic on Friday. Point Topic reported that there are now 9.8 million high-speed Internet lines in Britain, compared to 9.7 million in France and...
[December 30, 2005, 10:00]
Commercial VoIP Sees Strong Growth
News Research group Point Topic reported on Wednesday that an estimated 11 million people were using a retail voice-over-IP service worldwide at the end of the first quarter of this year. Point Topic claims the number of actual Skype users is much lower...
[July 7, 2005, 16:50]
Broadband Growth Outpaces Mobile Take-up
News Broadband is one of the fastest-growing technologies in history, according to research group Point Topic, which has calculated that there are now over 100 million broadband lines worldwide. Based on this growth, Point Topic is confident that the...
[January 5, 2004, 16:25]
Broadband Divide Getting Wider
News Research firm Point Topic has warned that the take-up of high-speed Internet access is still skewed in favour of prosperous urban areas, and the problem may be getting worse. Point Topic's figures, though, show some big differences around the...
[January 19, 2006, 12:40]
Broadband Prices Tumble Worldwide
News Analyst group Point Topic reported that worldwide consumer DSL prices fell by an average of 25 percent between September 2002 and last month, thanks to an international wave of price cuts this year. The US should see particularly strong growth...
[October 20, 2003, 16:40]
UK Beats China In DSL Growth
News Research company Point Topic said the UK's DSL market grew by over 20 percent during the first three months of this year, compared with a growth rate of 14 percent in China. At the end of March 2005, there were almost 5 million DSL lines in the UK...
[June 13, 2005, 15:05]
Remote Working Booming
News According to research firm Point Topic, there are 3.8 million full-time teleworkers in the UK, with 5.5 million people spending some of their week working remotely. The majority of the non-officebound are freelancers and sole traders with...
[September 1, 2005, 17:20]
Britain Still Playing Broadband Catch-up
News Figures published by analyst group Point Topic on Wednesday show that the UK comes twentieth in terms of broadband lines per head of population, even though it has the eighth largest market for broadband services.
[March 25, 2004, 14:55]
Broadband Prices Crash Around The Globe
News Broadband Internet access prices are plummeting as cable and DSL operators compete for subscribers and users get fed up with dial-up, according to a report published by broadband research group Point Topic.
[July 30, 2004, 16:05]
Labour Constituencies Flying The Flag For Broadband Britain
News Broadband analysts Point Topic have found that seven out of 10 of the most connected constituencies are Labour. According to Point Topic, areas that are the most broadband-friendly are those with voters that tend to be young and affluent, as well...
[April 25, 2005, 17:30]
SDSL: UK Companies Ambivalent Despite Prices Cuts
News That's the word from analyst group Point Topic, which published its latest research into SDSL (symmetrical digital supply line) on Thursday. Point Topic has found that European SDSL prices are falling as incumbent operators begin offering the...
[May 27, 2004, 18:00]
BT Set To Take Broadband Lead Again
News A report released by Point Topic on Tuesday, covering UK ISP market share through Q2 2006, found that the cable provider's ability to keep adding broadband subscribers has been hampered by geographic limitations.
[September 12, 2006, 13:25]
ADSL Prices Stop Falling
News The days of generous broadband price cuts are over, for the moment at least, according to an analysis published this week.was a year of slashed entry-level prices for ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) broadband service providers around the...
[February 5, 2004, 12:30]
Asia Leads The Way In Broadband Growth
News Worldwide growth of 36 per cent during the past six months has added 6.8 million subscribers to the global total, according to figures collated by Point Topic, a DSL industry analyst firm, and released at the DSL Forum Summit in London on Wednesday.
[August 28, 2002, 9:31]
Wireless 'piggybacking' Threatens Remote Workers
News The finding highlights the potential security pitfalls associated with working from home, coinciding as it does with another survey, from research firm Point Topic, which suggests that 16 percent of UK Internet users perform work-related tasks...
[August 29, 2006, 12:50]
Internet TV Drives Broadband Uptake
News Almost 40 million people worldwide signed up for DSL broadband access in the 12 months to 30 September 2005, according to the figures produced for the DSL Forum by industry analyst house Point Topic. Widespread broadband is encouraging the...
[December 20, 2005, 12:35]
Broadband Britain Sees Costs Fall As Speeds Rise
News Broadband analyst Point Topic estimates broadband penetration will hit 19 million households by 2012, or 74 percent of the country. CN, which is due to reach almost 10 million Brits by the end of 2008 provided it doesn't slip behind schedule, will...
[February 4, 2008, 7:26]
UK Bottom Of Broadband League Table
News A survey from research firm Point Topic found last week BT's prices were among the highest in the world. BT is definitely at the expensive end and I don't understand why they don't come out and say that is their policy because they are not managing...
[April 3, 2001, 6:18]
BT Reveals Scale Of Business Broadband Failure
News Research group Point Topic warned back in May 2004 that many businesses were unconvinced by SDSL merits. Speaking on Monday, a Point Topic analyst said that SDSL take-up still hadn't taken off, and suggested that ISPs were waiting for faster...
[August 23, 2005, 17:05]
