Showing posts with label broadband subscribers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label broadband subscribers. Show all posts

Monday, June 25, 2007

Broadband Subscribers, 300 million strong

At the end of first quarter 2007, the total number of broadband subscribers was close to 300 million, and according to folks at Point Topic, we are way past that number by now. Thanks to strong growth in Eastern Europe and China, the broadband subscriber base is growing at much faster clip that most imagined.

Chart of international broadband subscriptions as of first quarter 2007Romania for instance has over million subscribers. Smaller countries like Slovenia and Lithuania are only getting started and we should expect to see the add more zip to the growth rate in EU. US remains #1 in terms of total subscribers, but China is nipping on its heels. France is the fifth largest broadband country in terms of subscribers, ahead of South Korea.

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