- Tech News & Insight
- November 4, 2025
- Hema Kadia
OECD data shows fixed and mobile broadband have shifted from build-out to scale-up, with fibre and 5G underpinning a new phase of digital infrastructure. Fixed broadband penetration across the OECD rose to 36.5 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants by end-2024, up from 32 in 2019, while the fibre share of fixed lines jumped from 28 percent to 47 percent over the same period. Gigabit-tier offers (โฅ1 Gbps) moved from 4 percent of subscriptions in 2019 to 19 percent in 2024, signaling both wider availability and growing appetite for very high throughput. On mobile, average monthly data consumption per subscription increased 2.5xโfrom 6 GB at end-2019 to 15 GB in 2024, aligned with more video, cloud, and AI-assisted applications shifting to handhelds and connected devices.
- 5G, AI, API, Assurance, Automation, IoT, Monetization, RAN, SD-WAN, Sustainability
- Broadband, Devices, Gaming, Investment, LEO, Partnerships, Signal, Spectrum
- Public sector, Retail



