A new report
published by Quantum-Web, reveals dynamic of broadband
tariffs decrease since Q1 2005 by bandwidth for residential
and enterprise segments.
Overall, the report details trend of broadband prices
in Europe and draws attention to the diversity of
tariffs in residential and enterprise segments and
differentiation of tariff policy based on client type
by incumbent and providers.
In the cross sectional analysis of packages, the average
prices is estimated based on "uncapped"
packages which is therefore capable of producing best
unbiased analysis. Thus, the European average prices
represent a minimized heteroscedasticity in national
prices posted by "capped" outlier packages
in each country.
Moreover, the report stratifies
available broadband access technologies in Europe
and examines Residential and Enterprise Broadband,
SDSL, VDSL, FWA, Satellite, FTTx and Cable separately
in order to give individual insight to those technologies
and services.
The report
- European Broadband Pricing Benchmarks - is based
on extensive research conducted with 121 operators
featured across 37 European countries and some 787
tariff packages of which 547 are mostly residential
orientated and 240 are tailored for enterprises.
The report
yet to address broadband user pricing complemented
by a comparative cross-country analysis of first quarter
2005 tariffs by stratification of bandwidth for each
market (residential and enterprise) and backed by
a trend analysis of previous four quarter tariffs.
Both time series and cross section analysis provide
a glimpse of pricing strategies of European service
providers.
Tariffs are
represented in local currency, Euro, US Dollar and
in Purchasing Power Parity terms.
The report
sample based on 295, 350, 455 , 764 and 787 tariffs
in Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 2004 and Q1 2005 respectively.
