32Mbps in UK homes by 2019?

According to a recent Point Topic report, the majority of UK homes – as many as 90 per cent – could have access to broadband lines providing top connection speeds of 32Mbps by 2019. This report is based on the oft-cited Moore’s Law that states that the number of transistors than can be easily placed on an integrated circuit will increase exponentially, doubling roughly every two years.

Specifically referring to the proposed investment programme which would see every UK household capable of having access to broadband speeds of at least 2Mbps, Tim Johnson, chief analyst at Point Topic, said in a statement that “some people say [the Digital Britain report] is too little too late, but we believe that investing to deliver 2Mbps could provide the platform for much higher-speed broadband services in areas where it wouldn’t otherwise happen for many years.”

This is, of course, all dependent upon the terms of the proposed Universal Service Obligation, and the specifics of any investment schemes can be agreed upon between the leading ISPs and mobile networks of the UK.

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