Again startling facts from Point Topic (www.point-topic.com - use peapd/peapod to log on). Amazingly South Africa is even behind Iceland for BB delivery and penetration.
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World broadband lines exceed 150 million
16 December 2004
Given current growth rates worldwide broadband subscribers will exceed 150 million before the end of 2004.
Point Topic's latest analysis of the World broadband market indicates broadband subscriptions rose to 136.4m by 30 September 2004. This marks a 53% increase from 89m lines in the same quarter last year - an absolute increase of 47m lines.
The Asia Pacific share of subscriptions stood at 43% with 58.7m lines. EMEA's market share increased by 4% since Q3 2003 to 27% and 37.1m lines, as the Americas share declined by 3% to 30% reaching 40.6m lines.
The USA remains the world's leading broadband country achieving 31.7m lines in Q3 2004. China is in second place, adding 3m to reach 22.2m lines, and is pulling further ahead of Japan which had 17.2m lines. France overtook Canada to take sixth place with 5.7m lines. The UK added 762,000 lines in Q3 - the most by any European country, and reached 5.1m lines.
In terms of percentage growth Thailand led the way with 95% growth to reach 110,000 lines - which were mainly DSL. Elsewhere, the Eastern European countries have displayed particularly strong growth, due to a combination of strong demand and greater transparency in their respective telecommunications markets.
Hungary for example achieved 69% growth with cable modem and other broadband subscribers now featured amongst mainstream DSL subscriptions. Poland also experienced solid growth of 59% and is approaching 500,000 broadband lines. In other parts of Europe, Turkey continues to grow strongly registering 43% to reach 272,500 broadband lines.
Latin American countries also feature in the 'top ten' for growth, with Mexico achieving 33% and approaches 500,000 broadband lines. Argentina had growth of 26% as it passed 400,000 lines.
In terms of broadband penetration, South Korea remains the leader on almost 25 broadband lines per 100 people, with Hong Kong still in second place with 21 lines per 100 people. The Netherlands has made the biggest impact in this 'top ten' overtaking Canada to take 4th place with 17.5 broadband lines per 100. Israel has also been impressive in eighth place with 13.9 lines per 100 - overtaking both Japan and Sweden.
Smaller countries, with less than 500,000 population, are excluded from this ranking but some of them are also reaching high penetrations. Iceland, for example, now has over 12 broadband lines per 100 population. There are an ever growing number of countries offering broadband, additions to Point Topic's analysis this quarter are Jamaica and Guernsey.
The full breakdown of worldwide broadband subscribers is available to subscribers of the Point Topic Operator Source service.
Fig 1 - Share of broadband lines by region
Source: Point Topic
Fig 2 - Top ten broadband countries by number of lines: Q204 - Q304
Source: Point Topic
Fig 3 - Top ten broadband countries by lines added: Q3 2004
Source: Point Topic
Fig 4 - Top ten broadband countries by percentage growth: Q3 2004
Source: Point Topic
Fig 5 - Top ten broadband countries by penetration: Q2 - Q3 2004
Source: Point Topic
Fig 6 - Broadband technologies in top ten countries: Q3 2004
Source: Point Topic
Gobsmacking!
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World broadband lines exceed 150 million
16 December 2004
Given current growth rates worldwide broadband subscribers will exceed 150 million before the end of 2004.
Point Topic's latest analysis of the World broadband market indicates broadband subscriptions rose to 136.4m by 30 September 2004. This marks a 53% increase from 89m lines in the same quarter last year - an absolute increase of 47m lines.
The Asia Pacific share of subscriptions stood at 43% with 58.7m lines. EMEA's market share increased by 4% since Q3 2003 to 27% and 37.1m lines, as the Americas share declined by 3% to 30% reaching 40.6m lines.
The USA remains the world's leading broadband country achieving 31.7m lines in Q3 2004. China is in second place, adding 3m to reach 22.2m lines, and is pulling further ahead of Japan which had 17.2m lines. France overtook Canada to take sixth place with 5.7m lines. The UK added 762,000 lines in Q3 - the most by any European country, and reached 5.1m lines.
In terms of percentage growth Thailand led the way with 95% growth to reach 110,000 lines - which were mainly DSL. Elsewhere, the Eastern European countries have displayed particularly strong growth, due to a combination of strong demand and greater transparency in their respective telecommunications markets.
Hungary for example achieved 69% growth with cable modem and other broadband subscribers now featured amongst mainstream DSL subscriptions. Poland also experienced solid growth of 59% and is approaching 500,000 broadband lines. In other parts of Europe, Turkey continues to grow strongly registering 43% to reach 272,500 broadband lines.
Latin American countries also feature in the 'top ten' for growth, with Mexico achieving 33% and approaches 500,000 broadband lines. Argentina had growth of 26% as it passed 400,000 lines.
In terms of broadband penetration, South Korea remains the leader on almost 25 broadband lines per 100 people, with Hong Kong still in second place with 21 lines per 100 people. The Netherlands has made the biggest impact in this 'top ten' overtaking Canada to take 4th place with 17.5 broadband lines per 100. Israel has also been impressive in eighth place with 13.9 lines per 100 - overtaking both Japan and Sweden.
Smaller countries, with less than 500,000 population, are excluded from this ranking but some of them are also reaching high penetrations. Iceland, for example, now has over 12 broadband lines per 100 population. There are an ever growing number of countries offering broadband, additions to Point Topic's analysis this quarter are Jamaica and Guernsey.
The full breakdown of worldwide broadband subscribers is available to subscribers of the Point Topic Operator Source service.
Fig 1 - Share of broadband lines by region
Source: Point Topic
Fig 2 - Top ten broadband countries by number of lines: Q204 - Q304
Source: Point Topic
Fig 3 - Top ten broadband countries by lines added: Q3 2004
Source: Point Topic
Fig 4 - Top ten broadband countries by percentage growth: Q3 2004
Source: Point Topic
Fig 5 - Top ten broadband countries by penetration: Q2 - Q3 2004
Source: Point Topic
Fig 6 - Broadband technologies in top ten countries: Q3 2004
Source: Point Topic