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Users with fibre to the home (FTTH) connections are using soaring levels of bandwidth, one new report has suggested.

The study by the FTTH Council Europe revealed homes with fibre connections are driving triple the amount of demand for bandwidth compared to those with ADSL.

Students who enjoy surfing the web for their own enjoyment as well as using it as a tool for their studies could be interested to hear these findings.

Joeri Van Bogaert, president of the council, said there is a vast difference between the bandwidth traffic of the two internet connection types despite mass-market fibre applications not being available yet.

"We expect this to increase significantly as fibre adoption continues to increase across Europe and further services are developed with fibre in mind," he added.

The council's study tested Nielsen's Law, which says microprocessors' speeds grow by 50 per cent every year.

It also tested the law from a usage perspective by studying broadband traffic patterns across 100,000 European homes.

The FTTH council is a non-profit organisation established to help its members with planning, marketing, implementing and managing the market's solutions.

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