Fixed broadband plummeted from 92% of households in 2009 to just 5% in 2018, while fibre broadband soared from zero to 92% in just six years, IMDA dat

Contains information from "Internet Connection at Home by Type" accessed on 25 June 2026 from Info-communications Media Development Authority (data.gov.

sg (Singapore Department of Statistics)) which is made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0 (https://beta.data.gov.sg/open-data-licence).

from Singapore Singapore's digital infrastructure story is often told in terms of bandwidth and smart-nation ambitions, but the quieter structural shift inside its households is equally dramatic.

Data from the Info-communications Media Development Authority, covering the ten years from 2008 to 2018, captures a wholesale turnover of home internet access types that changed the physical wires and signals serving nearly every home in the city-state.

What the data captures At the start, fixed broadband was the dominant force, hitting a peak of 92% of households in 2009. By the end, its share had collapsed to just 5% in 2018.

Meanwhile, fibre broadband — absent from the survey before 2012 — climbed from 25% in 2012 to 92% in 2018, effectively mirroring the fixed line's trajectory in reverse.

Wireless broadband's rise and retreat Wireless broadband surged to 56% of homes in 2014, likely fueled by improved 3G and early 4G mobile plans.

Yet its role receded sharply to 8% by 2018, as households increasingly treated mobile connections as a backup rather than the primary wire — a shift that was no less telling than the fibre takeover.

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