The analysis found that 34.9 per cent of connections were fixed broadband subscriptions - an 18.6 per cent jump over the year to December 2021 - to move ahead of cable, now at 32.4 per cent of fixed broadband subscriptions, with DSL at 27 per cent and declining.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries including the UK, US, Japan, France, Germany and Canada.
“This is good news for the delivery of data-intense services and applications, given the symmetrical capacity that fibre offers,” the OECD said in a statement.
The biggest areas of growth were in Costa Rica, Israel, Greece and Belgium, which all increased fibre connections by more than 80 per cent in 2021. The share of fibre in total broadband is now at 50 per cent or above in 13 OECD countries, standing above 50 per cent in Chile, Finland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway and Portugal, and above 70 per cent in Iceland...