London, 18 September 2007— World broadband lines passed 311 million

The total number of broadband lines with an annual increase of 27% from 246.4 million at 30 June 2006 now stands at a throbbing 311.7 million in June 2007. The graph below depicts how the total is broken down.

According to our findings, the growth was driven mainly by the 24.9%, 31.2% and 25.7% increase in the number of broadband lines in Asia-Pacific, Americas and Europe, to reach 120.9, 87.2 and 100 million respectively by 30 June 2007.
The fastest growing region on an annualized basis was “Middle East- Africa” with a vivid growth of 33.3% where the number of broadband lines rose to 3.6 million during the same period

The findings also point to the fact that DSL with trend growth of 25% passing 201 million lines by 30 June 2007 is acting as the engine of broadband growth. Cable Modem meanwhile has shown a steady growth rate of 18% with over 65 million lines by the same period.

Among other technologies LAN with 39% annual growth shows the largest access technology whereas FTTx with 57% increase in the number of broadband lines to 14.7 million is the second largest access technology. FWA and W-LAN with 47% and 93% are less employed.

Graph 2 shows DSL, Cable Modem and other technologies market share through the second quarter of 2007.

 

The report includes data for over 350 operators in 95 countries.

 

 

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