Posts Tagged ‘broadband’

U.S. Broadband Growth

March 18th, 2010
  • Nearly 4.1 million new subscribers signed up for broadband from the 19 largest cable and telephone providers in the U.S. in 2009.
  • The top cable companies netted 57 percent of the broadband additions in 2009 and added 2.3 million broadband subscribers.
  • The top telephone providers added over 1.7 million broadband subscribers.
  • In the fourth quarter of 2009, cable and telephone providers added 890,000 broadband subscribers — with cable companies adding about 580,000 subscribers and phone companies adding about 310,000 subscribers.

From: http://gigaom.com/2010/03/12/us-broadband-2009/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OmMalik+(GigaOM)

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1/3 Of Americans Don’t Use Fast Internet

March 17th, 2010

  • According to the FCC, about 93 million Americans don’t use fast, broadband Internet, citing cost and complexity as a factor.

  • The study found that 80 million adults and 13 million children either still use dial-up or don’t use the Internet at all at home.

  • 78 percent of adults are Internet users, whether that means broadband, dial-up, access from home or access from someplace other than home.

  • 74 percent of adults have access at home

  • 67 percent of U.S. households contain a broadband user who accesses the service at home.

  • 65 percent of adults are broadband adopters. The discrepancy of two percentage points between household and individual home use is because some survey respon- dents are nonbroadband users but live with someone who, at home, is.

  • 6 percent of Americans use dial-up Internet connections as their main form of home access.

  • 6 percent are Internet users but do not use it from home; they access the Internet from places such as work, the library or community centers.

From: http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/02/24/13-of-americans-dont-use-fast-internet/

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Number of Broadband Subscribers Worldwide

February 16th, 2010

End of 2009
Total Subscribers : 422 million (9% increase YoY)
DSL : 65%
Cable : 25%
Fiber Broadband : 11%

Number of broadband subscribers by 2014 : 501 million (CAGR 20% 2009-2014)

From: http://techcrunchies.com/broadband-subscribers-statistics/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunchies+(TechCrunchies)

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Random U.S. Broadband Penetration Stats

February 3rd, 2010
  • Between 2000 and 2008, residential broadband subscribers grew to 80 million from five million, according to a study by Bret Swanson of Entropy Economics.
  • Broadband penetration among active Internet users at home is 94%
  • Nearly 99% of U.S. workers connect to the Internet with broadband.
  • A typical cable modem today is 10 times faster than a decade ago.
  • Wireless bandwidth growth per capita has been no less impressive, showing a 500-fold increase since 2000.

From: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703652104574652501608376552-lMyQjAxMTAwMDEwOTExNDkyWj.html

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Telecom Stats from AT&T

January 14th, 2010

From AT&T:

  • Broadband is currently available to 90% of households
  • 66% of households subscribe to broadband.
  • Over 99% of Americans live in areas with cellular phone service
  • 86% of Americans subscribe to a wireless service.
  • More than 22% of households have ‘cut the cord’ entirely.
  • At least 18 million households currently use a VoIP service,18 and it is estimated that by 2010, cable companies alone will be providing VoIP to more than 24 million customers; by 2011, there may be up to 45 million total VoIP subscribers.
  • Today, less than 20% of Americans rely exclusively on POTS for voice service. Approximately 25% of households have abandoned POTS altogether, and another 700,000 lines are being cut every month.
  • Total interstate and intrastate switched access minutes have fallen by a staggering 42% from 2000 through 2008.
  • There are probably now more broadband connections than telephone lines in the United States.
  • ILEC revenue from POTS service fell from $178.6 billion in 2000 to $130.8 billion in 2007, a 27% decrease. At the same time, the average per-line cost of maintaining the legacy network has risen from $43 per year in 2003 to $52 per year today.

From: http://www.nojitter.com/blog/archives/2010/01/atts_call_to_su.html

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A whole Bunch of Global Telecom Stats

January 4th, 2010

From: http://www.dailywireless.org/2009/12/31/mobile-outlook-good/

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Household Broadband Usage

January 4th, 2010

In 2009 the average U.S. broadband household downloaded 7.27 GB/month, according to market research firm IDC, a figure it expects to grow to 12.5 GB/month by 2013. However, looking at the average is deceiving because the mean is undoubtedly much lower. Using a simple “80/20 rule” (20 percent of the users consume 80 percent of the traffic) results in the top 20 percent of users downloading 29.1 GB/month (growing to 50.3 by 2013) while the lower 80 percent download 1.8 GB/month (growing to 3.1 by 2013). A 90/10 split results in the top 10 percent of users downloading 65.4 GB/month (growing to 113.2 by 2013).

From: http://gigaom.com/2009/12/27/can-usage-based-broadband-billing-be-done-fairly/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OmMalik+(GigaOM)

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Broadband Growth

January 4th, 2010

From: http://gigaom.com/2009/12/23/1999-2009-how-broadband-changed-everything/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OmMalik+(GigaOM)

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US Broadband Subscribers Growth

December 28th, 2009

2000 : 5.0 million
2001 : 9.7 million
2002 : 16.1 million
2003 : 22.3 million
2004 : 32.5 million
2005 : 42.9 million
2006 : 54.0 million
2008 : 67.7 million
2009 : 80.0 million

From: http://techcrunchies.com/us-broadband-subscribers-growth/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunchies+(TechCrunchies)

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World Broadband Rankings by Usage

December 28th, 2009

Here are the world leaders ranked by average quantity of content consumer per user per month:

1. South Korea : 24.5 GB

2. France : 14.3 GB

3. USA : 14.2 GB

4. Germany : 12.9 GB

5. UK : 11.9 GB

6. Japan : 9.9 GB

Average broadband connection : 11.4 GB

From: http://techcrunchies.com/world-broadband-rankings-by-usage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunchies+(TechCrunchies)

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