Fibre Optic Broadband could be Costlier
It is an undoubtably proven fact that the broadband prices in the United Kingdom are getting cheaper with time, but in terms of price per megabit. However, it could also be a possibility that as bandwidth increases beside offering greater connection speeds with the widespread rollout of the next generation fibre optic broadband rollout, consumers might just be paying more.
This estimation has been done by the popular broadband tracking agency Point Topic. According to Fiona Vanier, a senior broadband market analyst the broadband providers have been generally increasing the entry-level service prices, particularly for DSL in the last few months. She added that the providers nevertheless have forced a general reduction in the price per Mb by hiking connection speeds, or at least their services’ quoted headline speeds.
Vanier also stressed that as often these headline speeds never matched with real connection speeds, the bandwidth cost drop may seldom be as dramatic as suggested by the raw data.
Meanwhile, the figures shown by the broadband tracking firm made it clear that global price for per Mb data dropped by almost 30 per cent for DSL broadbad internet in the previous year, tad above 23 per cent for cable broadband, and 2.1 per cent for fibre optic broadband.
DSL broadband packages in the United Kingdom, on an average, had 11.6Mbps headline speed at GBP 21.33 average price in the final quarter of last year, while an average speed of 19.83 Mbits was offered by cable broadband at a price of GBP 28.83. It is also interesting that the sole fibre optic broadband offering in the country was of 40Mbps speed at the price of GBP 25 a month.
