Jan 25, 2010

Half Billion Fixed Line Broadband Netizens


A visual representation of the internet

A half a billion users will have their own fixed broadband subscriptions this year.

"Overall the number of net new fixed-broadband subscriptions grew in 2009 to over 480 million, largely as a result of accelerating growth in emerging markets and we expect this number to reach 500 million this year. China, Russia, Mexico, India and Vietnam were among the countries that recorded the greatest leaps in fixed-broadband subscription numbers last year,"

- comments Rob Gallagher, Principal Analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media and Lead Author of the Next 100 Million report.

Note that this does not include all the mobile net subscriptions that are poliferating or just dial-up accounts, so actual number of net users would be even greater.

Country-wise figures for fixed-broadband subscriptions at end-September 2009 are:


RankCountrySubscriptions
1China91,348,000
2US82,846,600
3Japan31,240,000
4Germany25,114,300
5France19,306,400
6UK18,033,300
7Korea16,238,262
8Russia12,356,100
9Italy12,116,350
10Brazil10,951,600
11Spain9,681,520
12Canada9,562,000
13Mexico8,771,100
14India7,653,460
15Netherlands6,274,000
16Turkey6,166,800
17Australia5,968,000
18Poland5,654,100
19Taiwan5,549,440
20Argentina3,543,800




2 comments:

Prabhu Srinivasan said...

Hi where is india on the list ??

Aditya Prateek Anand said...

India is no. 14 on the list with 7,653,460 fixed line broadband subscribers.