Research from Point Topic shows the number of broadband
subscribers in March 2007, across the world, had reached 298 million. With current growth levels, this will now have surpassed 300 million. Growth levels above 10% in Eastern Europe for the last
quarter has helped fuel the ever expanding broadband market. Greece in particular showed a 26.8% increase!
The USA tops the charts with just over 60 million users, closely followed by China, some 4 million behind. The UK is holding strong at just under 14 million, an increase of just under 850,000
users.
| Country | End 2006 | End Q1 2007 |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 57,488,226 | 60,362,830 |
| China | 51,723,000 | 56,258,499 |
| Japan | 25,882,100 | 26,533,000 |
| Germany | 14,894,100 | 16,142,750 |
| France | 13,994,400 | 15,304,900 |
| South Korea | 14,042,698 | 14,102,888 |
| UK | 13,111,600 | 13,953,000 |
| Italy | 8,826,803 | 9,348,250 |
| Canada | 7,735,621 | 8,010,139 |
| Spain | 6,726,756 | 7,185,932 |
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Darn Germans and French are beating us!
It would be interesting to know how these figures rank against each country’s population!
“It would be interesting to know how these figures rank against each country’s population!”
Roughly it seems to work out at one broadband subscriber for every 4/6 people in most countries – except S Korea (one BB per 3 people) and China (one BB per 23 people)
Number of subscribers should really be per household as usually there is only one subscriber per household and obviously in some countries the number of users per household will be higher. UK has approx. 26million households and 65m pop. therefore 50%+ household penetration.