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Black Sheep:
From our Chief Engineer .............

I'm delighted to share that we’ve recently published our first ever Openreach Fibre Index which shows how data usage across our fibre connections is growing 40% year on year. The Fibre Index will be updated seasonally and it’s already revealing a few interesting insights into the UK’s fibre broadband habits, like how just a quarter of homes and businesses account for 75% of the total data consumed over the network in an average month.

Over the last five years, average download speeds and broadband usage have surged. While it’s not surprising to see that total data usage continues to grow, the pace and scale of growth and adoption is extraordinary.  Over half of UK households have at least two different internet enabled devices and nearly a third has seven or more, all usually connected at the same time.  And now with the rapid growth of Smart TVs all needing a fast broadband connection, what we can see is that consumers and businesses will demand even more from fibre.

This summer, data usage peaked on 23 August. During that week we saw the World Athletics Championship, the Belgian Grand Prix, and several major news stories break which may well have contributed to this rise in data consumption. We also saw usage peak during the evening on Sundays, perhaps when people are catching up on box-sets or Skyping friends and family.

I’m proud the work by our Openreach engineers is enabling millions of people to connect with each other in new ways and at a faster rate than ever before. Our fibre network is more than able to deliver the speed and capacity that people need both today and for years to come. The roll out of our fibre broadband network will be one of the great British success stories in history. It underpins our network cornerstone and plays a key part in our mission to build Britain’s connected future.

See more here ........... http://www.homeandwork.openreach.co.uk/fibre-index

burakkucat:
Thank you for sharing that message.  :)

(Even though the grumpy cat gave black looks towards the usage of certain words and phrases.  ;)  )

NewtronStar:

--- Quote from: Black Sheep on November 13, 2015, 12:42:01 PM ---
This summer, data usage peaked on 23 August. During that week we saw the World Athletics Championship, the Belgian Grand Prix, and several major news stories break which may well have contributed to this rise in data consumption. We also saw usage peak during the evening on Sundays, perhaps when people are catching up on box-sets or Skyping friends and family.


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I did wonder why the Sky Go on the F1 channel was buffering every minute it was useless and just gave up watching it.

WWWombat:
All information on the progress & use of NGA gratefully received ;)

A rise in the average from 50 GB to 190 GB. Not bad... The surprising numbers need to be pulled from the base ones...

190GB averaged over 5 million lines is a total of 950 Petabytes.

The top 25% use 75% of this data: 1.25m lines and 712 PB, or 570 GB on average.
The bottom 75% use 25% of this data: 3.75m lines and 238 PB, or 63 GB on average.

There are some *very* different habits going on between those groups! And the top group is too big to be defined as irregular users; I suspect the difference comes down to the amount of IP video being watched habitually.

Weaver:
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