Commercial Broadcasters' Association (COBA) TV hub report

Robin Foster and Tom Broughton have compiled a report for the Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA) which examines the UK's future as a global TV hub, and the role that multichannel broadcasters can play in securing further growth in the UK TV sector.

The report highlights the contribution made by major multichannel companies such as Discovery, Disney, Viacom and Sky in helping the UK TV sector consolidate its scale and competitiveness, leveraging their  international funding and other resources, and using the UK as a commissioning centre for their global channel networks.

Download the full report and press release below.

Building a global TV hub: full report
Press release

Forecasting domestic UK broadband demand, 2013-2023

Communications Chambers were commissioned by the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) to develop a model (and summary report) that  seeks to forecast UK domestic demand for broadband capacity. As far as we are aware, it is the first such model to be put into the public domain. 

The model combines the usage profiles of various applications with the usage of profiles of individuals. These individual profiles are then combined into various household profiles. 156 household profiles are modelled in the report, based on demographics, intensity of use and TV type.  The household profiles have also been combined to create a picture of national demand.

The work was supported by BSkyB, BT, Ofcom, TalkTalk, Three and Vodafone.

You can download the model, report and press release below. Comment and feedback is invited.

• Press release in full
• BSG Foreword to the report
• Full report: Domestic demand for bandwidth
• Full model underpinning report
• Model explanatory notes

You may also be interested in subsequent work using a similar methodology:

• A forecast of Australian bandwidth demand
• A forecast of UK small business bandwidth demand