Analysis of the European mobile broadband market by Ronan de Renesse, Senior Analyst at Screen Digest, points to a marked slowdown in growth in the next two years.

OFCOM has published its Market Review for the last quarter of 2008 showing a 2.1% increase in residential and small business broadband connections over the previous quarter.

OFCOM’s latest quarterly telecomms market report for Q3 2008 shows an increase in residential and small business broadband connections of 322,000 in the three months July-September 20008.
The annual increase over September 2007 was just under 2 million connections so we can see that growth is falling away in the classic S shaped curve of technology [...]

At the end of Q1 2008 OFCOM reported 16.2 million residential and SME broadband connections, a figure that probably exceeds 17 million today. This is about half the total number of fixed line telephone connections.
Sky report some 9 million subscribers to their TV service, and O2 are listed by OFCOM as having the largest number [...]