As of March 2013, the number of standalone and bundled broadband plans in the Teligen OECD Fixed Broadband Price Benchmarking service totalled just over 2,300 ? broadly comparable to the December 2012 update. The number of fibre-based packages now stands at just under 31% of all plans, while 63% of all packages are residential offerings, more than half of which are bundled offerings. In terms of speed, almost two thirds of all plans offer download of 15 Mb/s or above, while a quarter have an advertised maximum download speed of 45 Mb/s or above.

In this update, there have been a number of changes to the ISPs covered. In Belgium, Base (owned by KPN) no longer offers residential services for new supply. A new KPN-owned company, SNOW, has been set up to serve residential customers, with a range of multiplay offers, and these have been included in the system. Base will continue to serve new business customers for the time being, and business-based pricing can still be found in the system under Base. In France, an additional operator, SFR has been introduced, in addition to the three ISPs already covered, while in Iceland, ISP Hringi?an has been replaced by Tal ? both of these changes being made on the basis of market share considerations. Furthermore, in Czech Republic, ISP GTS Novera has been replaced by T-Mobile, to reflect the fact that GTS Novera focuses primarily on the business market, while T-Mobile addresses both residential and business customers. Finally Polish incumbent operator Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (also often referred to as TP SA or Polish Telecom) has recently been rebranded to Orange Polska/Poland. The rebranding was initially announced in Q4 2012.

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