Global Internet Access industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market share, market size (value and volume, and forecast to 2029). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.
Key Highlights
- Internet access market includes all Internet service revenues collected to provide narrowband and broadband Internet access through consumer and business channels. All revenues calculated are retail revenues that are exclusive of taxes. Only fixed communication is included, and mobile phone connections are not considered. Market volume represents the number of internet users in a specific country in a year.
- The market is categorized into segments such as xDSL, cable, fixed wireless access, fiber optic (FTTH/B), and others segment.
- Digital subscriber lines (xDSL) refer collectively to all types of digital subscriber lines, including ADSL and SDSL, and HDSL. DSL technologies use modulation schemes to pack data onto copper wires. They are used only for connections from a telephone switching station to a home or office, not between switching stations. xDSL operates over existing copper telephone lines and requires short runs to a central telephone office. The technology can be used for the Internet, data, and video. Some varieties are also able to carry voice.
- Cable services refer to systems using coaxial cable and successive technologies (e.g., HFC) in transporting television broadcasts, Internet, and voice in the access network. Coaxial cable can achieve bandwidth speeds faster than 750 Mbps, but analog TV pictures require some 8 Mbps of bandwidth, and transmission of Internet and voice signals takes place at much lower rates.
- Fixed wireless access refers to local access via fixed wireless links. Owing to the increasing convergence of technologies perceived as mobile and those perceived as fixed, part of the focus in our definition is on the mobility of the device or customer premise equipment. Fixed wireless access subscriptions only include lines with fixed devices, within the customer’s premises or a narrow, restrained zone. Services allowing restrained mobility within a neighbourhood or a town are considered mobile for the purposes of our forecasts. It can be either narrowband or broadband.
- Fiber Optic (FTTH/B) estimates focus on fiber to the home as well as fiber to the building connections. In other words, we include fiber access lines connecting directly to the customer’s premises, a definition that encompasses so-called FTTH (fiber to the home) and to a building (FTTB - fiber to the building) within which the connection could be a range of different technologies. FTTC (fiber to the curb) is not included in our estimates.
- The others segment includes access through ISDN, WiMAX, and other access mediums, such as satellite and powerline. Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a system of digital phone connections, which allows voice, data, and Internet communications to be transmitted simultaneously using end-to-end digital connectivity. WiMAX refers to wireless access lines using WiMAX technology, or so-called pre-WiMAX fixed wireless solutions. As WiMAX technology evolves, mobile WiMAX solutions are emerging that are not captured in our fixed forecasts (but are captured in the publisher’s global mobile forecasts). As with traditional fixed wireless technologies, a key element of our definition is the degree of mobility of the device or customer premises equipment in this context. We consider a device attached to a fixed base and designed for stationary usage to be “fixed”. Hence, our definition also includes so-called portable WiMAX, in which usage is primarily stationary (rather than mobile).
- All market data and forecasts are based on nominal prices, and all currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using yearly annual average exchange rates. The USD values may show a declining trend for a few countries such as Argentina, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt, and Russia. This is primarily because of the impact of exchange rates considered.
- The global internet access market recorded revenues of $560.40 billion in 2024, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.0% between 2019 and 2024.
- Market consumption volume increased with a CAGR of 6.0% between 2019 and 2024, reaching a total of 4,806,121.6 thousand internet users in 2024.
- Asia-Pacific accounted for the largest share of 58.4% of the global internet access market in 2024.
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Table of Contents
1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2 Introduction
3 Global Internet Access
4 Macroeconomic Indicators
5 Internet Access in Asia-Pacific
6 Internet Access in Europe
7 Macroeconomic Indicators
8 Internet Access in France
9 Macroeconomic Indicators
10 Internet Access in Germany
11 Macroeconomic Indicators
12 Internet Access in Italy
13 Macroeconomic Indicators
14 Internet Access in Japan
15 Macroeconomic Indicators
16 Internet Access in Australia
17 Macroeconomic Indicators
18 Internet Access in Canada
19 Macroeconomic Indicators
20 Internet Access in China
21 Macroeconomic Indicators
22 Internet Access in The Netherlands
23 Macroeconomic Indicators
24 Internet Access in Spain
25 Macroeconomic Indicators
26 Internet Access in The United Kingdom
27 Macroeconomic Indicators
28 Internet Access in The United States
29 Macroeconomic Indicators
30 Company Profiles
31 Appendix
List of Tables
List of Figures
Companies Mentioned (Partial List)
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:
- 1&1 AG
- America Movil SAB de CV
- AT&T Inc
- BCE Inc
- Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd
- Bharti Airtel Ltd
- Bouygues Telecom SA
- BT Group Plc
- Charter Communications Inc
- China Mobile Ltd
- China Telecom Corp Ltd
- China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd
- Comcast Corp
- Deutsche Telekom AG
- Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Ltd
- Eltel AB
- Iliad SA
- KDDI Corp
- Koninklijke KPN NV
- KT Corp
- LG Uplus Corp
- Liberty Global Ltd
- M1 Ltd
- Masmovil Ibercom SA
- Megacable Holdings SAB de CV
- Mobile Telesystems PJSC
- MTN Group Ltd
- MyRepublic Pty Ltd
- NTT DOCOMO Inc
- Odido Netherlands Holding BV
- Orange SA
- PJSC MegaFon
- PT Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Tbk
- PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk
- PT XLSmart Telecom Sejahtera Tbk
- Rakuten Group Inc
- Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd
- Rogers Communications Inc
- Rostelecom
- SFR SA
- Singapore Telecommunications Ltd
- Singtel Optus Pty Ltd
- SK Telecom Co Ltd
- Sky Ltd
- SoftBank Group Corp
- StarHub Ltd
- Swisscom Ltd
- Talktalk Telecom Group Ltd
- Tele2 AB
- Telefonica Brasil SA
- Telefonica Deutschland Holding AG
- Telefonica SA
- Telenor ASA
- Telia Co AB
- Telkom SA SOC Ltd
- Telstra Group Ltd
- Telus Corp
- Tencent Holdings Ltd
- TIM SpA
- TPG Telecom Ltd
- Turk Telekomunikasyon AS
- Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS
- Verizon Communications Inc
- Vocus Group Ltd
- Vodafone Group Plc
- Vodafone Idea Ltd
- Ziggo Bond Company B.V.