Fixed wireless access (FWA) has already emerged as one of the most significant use cases for 5G mobile networking and has now become the fastest-growing technology for fixed broadband communications, according to research by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The OECD study revealed that fibre, which has been the dominant technology since 2021, amounted to 41% of total fixed broadband subscriptions in June 2023. Traditional copper-based DSL connections now represent only a 22% share of overall broadband connections, while cable accounts for 30.5%. Satellite, which grew 11% over the last three years, represented 0.7% of fixed broadband subscribers.
While FWA represents a more modest share of 3.7% of total fixed broadband subscriptions in countries where data is available, between June 2020 and June 2023 FWA subscriptions increased by 64%, compared to…
