Half Billion Fixed Line Broadband Netizens

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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:

Rank	Country	Subscriptions
1	China	91,348,000
2	US	82,846,600
3	Japan	31,240,000
4	Germany	25,114,300
5	France	19,306,400
6	UK	18,033,300
7	Korea	16,238,262
8	Russia	12,356,100
9	Italy	12,116,350
10	Brazil	10,951,600
11	Spain	9,681,520
12	Canada	9,562,000
13	Mexico	8,771,100
14	India	7,653,460
15	Netherlands	6,274,000
16	Turkey	6,166,800
17	Australia	5,968,000
18	Poland	5,654,100
19	Taiwan	5,549,440
20	Argentina	3,543,800