Broadband Coverage in Europe in 2021

The Broadband Coverage in Europe study is designed to monitor the progress of EU Member States towards their specific broadband coverage objectives – namely: ‘Universal Broadband Coverage with speeds at least 100Mbps, upgradable to gigabit speed, by 2025’ and ‘Gigabit connectivity for all by 2030’.

This report covers thirty-one countries across Europe – the EU27, plus Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and the UK, and analyses the availability of ten broadband technologies (DSL, VDSL, VDSL2 Vectoring, cable modem DOCSIS 3.0, DOCSIS 3.1, FTTP, FWA, LTE, 5G and satellite) across each market, at national and rural levels. In addition, various combination categories indicating the availability of one or more forms of broadband connection are also published.

These cover overall fixed broadband availability, next-generation access (NGA) availability and overall FTTP & DOCSIS 3.1 availability. Europe-wide overview, country comparisons and year-on-year trends are provided in this report.

Additionally, broadband coverage developments in study countries are discussed in individual country chapters.