Broadband customers have seen a significant drop in the amount they spend on bandwidth over the past two years, telecoms analysts have found.

Point Topic carried out a survey of home broadband tariffs across the world and discovered subscribers are now shelling out just half the total they were for bandwidth in 2008.

The fall in costs was attributed to increasing competition as operators - such as BT and Virgin Media - look to bring their DSL and fibre optic broadband services to new markets.

Oliver Johnson, chief executive of Point Topic, said a particular "squeeze" has been noticed on DSL prices and claimed the technology is "well-placed" to attract consumers who have no need to access full-speed bandwidth at all times.

"Many users do not use their broadband for more than a couple of hours a day and when they do it's often for applications that use relatively little bandwidth," he explained.

The company has previously predicted the number of telephone lines carrying super-fast broadband will rise from approximately 45,000 in December 2010 to more than 600,000 by the end of this year.

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