Openreach, BT’s local access network division, has recently revealed the unrelenting growth in demand for data over its UK fibre network as it published its first ever Openreach Fibre Index.
The Index shows that data usage across the company’s five million active fibre connections is increasing at 40 per cent year on year. Over the summer, the average fibre customer consumed 190 Gigabytes per month [165GB Download / 25GB Upload] which is the equivalent of a single household watching 45 HD movies or downloading 2,000 albums each month, or somebody box-set bingeing on 17 hours of HD TV every week, said BT in a statement. Out of the total data used, 75% of data traffic is consumed by only 25% of customer lines.
According to Openreach, the number of homes and businesses able to order a fibre broadband connection from Openreach – via the service provider of their choice – has also risen to more than 24 million, compared with just 4 million at the end of 2010.
