World Broadband Statistics

Point-Topic.com has published a document detailing various world broadband statistics. We have reproduced a large table showing the growth in
the numbers of DSL and non-DSL technologies in thirty countries. Two countries, Japan and South Korea, clearly buck the trend with the number of DSL based connections decreasing, this is largely due
to the continued roll-out of Metro Ethernet and Fibre To The Home services.

Broadband subscribers (in 000’s) in major countries (Top 30)

Country	DSL subscribers			Non-DSL subscribers			Total broadband subscribers
Country	Q405	Q406	Growth	Q405	Q406	Growth	Q405	Q406	Growth
China	26,359	37,120	40.8%	11,145	14,779	32.6%	37,504	51,899	38.4%
India	639	1,819	184.8%	210	326	55.4%	849	2,146	152.8%
USA	20,442	25,677	25.6%	25,667	31,652	23.3%	46,110	57,330	24.3%
Brazil	3,287	4,390	33.6%	751	1,456	93.8%	4,039	5,846	44.8%
Russia	510	1,026	101.2%	1,260	2,078	64.9%	1,770	3,104	75.4%
Japan	14,480	14,310	-1.2%	8,167	11,785	44.3%	22,647	26,095	15.2%
Mexico	1,606	2,725	69.7%	694	898	29.4%	2,301	3,624	57.5%
Germany	10,400	14,100	35.6%	306	560	82.7%	10,706	14,880	39.0%
Turkey	1,541	2,935	90.4%	30	30	0.0%	1,571	2,965	88.7%
France	9,391	13,276	41.4%	567	707	24.8%	9,958	13,983	40.4%
UK	7,183	10,034	39.7%	2,645	3,082	16.5%	9,828	13,116	33.5%
Italy	6,631	8,398	26.7%	346	428	23.7%	6,977	8,826	26.5%
South Korea	6,529	5,488	-15.9%	5,670	8,554	50.9%	12,199	14,042	15.1%
Spain	3,876	5,268	35.9%	976	1,458	49.5%	4,852	6,726	38.6%
Argentina	529	1,040	96.5%	307	523	70.1%	836	1,563	86.8%
Poland	1,217	1,835	50.7%	396	643	62.4%	1,613	2,478	53.6%
Canada	3,345	3,839	14.8%	3,509	4,036	15.0%	6,854	7,876	14.9%
Taiwan	3,653	3,851	5.4%	550	630	14.6%	4,203	4,481	6.6%
Australia	2,137	3,139	46.9%	603	762	26.3%	2,741	3,901	42.3%
Netherlands	2,460	2,957	20.2%	1,556	1,927	23.9%	4,016	4,884	21.6%
Portugal	704	946	34.3%	510	543	6.4%	1,215	1,489	22.6%
Belgium	1,277	1,485	16.3%	699	810	16.0%	1,976	2,296	16.2%
Sweden	1,271	1,502	18.2%	689	764	11.0%	1,960	2,266	15.6%
Austria	684	872	27.5%	509	564	10.7%	1,194	1,436	20.3%
Switzerland	1,098	1,368	24.6%	571	682	19.6%	1,669	2,050	22.9%
Israel	800	900	12.5%	400	500	25.0%	1,200	1,400	17.7%
Hong Kong	908	985	8.5%	810	830	2.4%	1,718	1,815	6.6%
Denmark	831	1,050	26.3%	531	689	29.7%	1,363	1,739	27.6%
Finland	1,045	1,232	18.0%	157	195	24.3%	1,202	1,427	18.8%
Norway	825	1,003	21.5%	178	216	21.6%	1,003	1,219	21.5%

Table ordered by size of countries population.

The table does not break down the non-DSL technologies to show how many are down to FTTx (Fibre To The Kerb or Fibre To The Home) technologies. We do have some indication of the popularity of the
various technologies in the worlds various regions.

Region	DSL	Cable Modem	FTTx	Other
Asia-Pacific	16%	16%	39%
Eastern Europe	3%	4%	7%
Latin America	5%	5%	0%
Middle East Asia	3%	1%	0%
North America	16%	54%	4%
South East Asia	22%	2%	47%
Western Europe	35%	18%	3%
Worldwide	66%	22%	11%	1%

Fibre technologies commonly called FTTx are continuing to out-perform both DSL and cable modem services in terms of growth, and the technology remains the current pinnacle of broadband for
consumers. The report defines a broadband service as one where the connection connects at 256Kbps (Kilo bits per second) or faster.

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A much better table IMO then some of the Ofcom ones that have previously been on the site news. This one breaks things down a bit more country by country. Still not a perfect chart (yes i know there is no such thing) but much better then some ive seen. An interesting read thanks :).

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The US figures are probably fudged, even though they do not show favourable anyway. Considering the US recently announced the 300 millionth citizen, pretty poor coverage. Whilst the UK moaned about the BT monopoly, at least it forced advancement of broadband. Here the telecos and cable do it in the profitable residential areas only. There are vast areas who will never get broadband at an affordable rate unless the US Gov wakes up – oh, but then that is against market forces……

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anonymous, 19 years ago

A much better table IMO then some of the Ofcom ones that have previously been on the site news. This one breaks things down a bit more country by country. Still not a perfect chart (yes i know there is no such thing) but much better then some ive seen. An interesting read thanks :).

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anonymous, 19 years ago

The US figures are probably fudged, even though they do not show favourable anyway. Considering the US recently announced the 300 millionth citizen, pretty poor coverage. Whilst the UK moaned about the BT monopoly, at least it forced advancement of broadband. Here the telecos and cable do it in the profitable residential areas only. There are vast areas who will never get broadband at an affordable rate unless the US Gov wakes up – oh, but then that is against market forces……

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