The Broadband Coverage in Europe study is designed to monitor the progress of EU Member States towards the gigabit coverage and 5G coverage targets as set out in the Digital Decade Policy programme - namely: 'Gigabit connectivity for all by 2030' and 'at least 5G in all populated areas'. - In 2022, DG CONNECT selected Omdia, in partnership with Point Topic to run the three-year project. The research team surveyed NRAs and telecommunications groups across each participating state to compile the requisite information. The current research team has conducted the broadband coverage study since 2016. In addition, Point Topic was the incumbent provider introducing the original research methodology in the period 2010-2012. The Omdia team, under the IHS Markit brand (in cooperation with VVA), delivered the study from 2013-2015 and adopted similar data collection and analysis methods to those implemented by Point Topic in order to ensure comparability of datasets for the purposes of time-series assessment. - The collected data reflects the situation at the end of June 2023 compared to the situation at the end of June 2022. For the 2023 edition, the research team reviewed the technologies and combination coverage categories included in the study and upon discussion with DG CONNECT, excluded the 'LTE coverage' category as all countries were reporting universal or near-universal availability. A new combination category was added to monitor coverage of Very High Capacity Networks (VHCN) as defined by the "BEREC Guidelines on Very High Capacity Networks" (BoR (23) 164). - This report covers 31 countries across Europe - the EU27, plus Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, and the UK and analyses the availability of eleven broadband access technologies (DSL, VDSL, VDSL2 Vectoring, cable modem DOCSIS 3.0, cable modem DOCSIS 3.1, FTTP, FWA, 5G, 5G coverage in the 3.4-3.8 GHz band, and satellite) across each market, at national and rural levels. In addition, four combination categories indicating the availability of one or more forms of broadband coverage are also included in the study. These cover overall fixed broadband availability, next generation access (NGA) availability, overall fixed VHCN availability (comprised of the combined FTTP & DOCSIS 3.1 availability), and BEREC-defined VHCN availability, which includes criteria considering both fixed and mobile networks
