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Sunday, August 10, 2003

Broadband usage stats
According to this E-Commerce Times article, the adoption rate of high-speed Internet access in the US is "healthy and growing steadily." At the end of 2002, there were more than 16.4 million residential broadband subscribers in the United States; by 2007 there will be 48 million U.S. subscribers. 29 percent of households that now have dial-up Internet access plan to upgrade to broadband in the next two years. As of the end of 2002, US cable companies had slightly more than 10.5 million high-speed Internet subscribers in total, whereas DSL providers had only 5 million; this proportional gap will remain roughly the same in future years. Other broadband distribution methods like satellite, fiber to the user and wireless lag far behind the top two methods and are not expected to catch up soon. All other providers that aren't cable and DSL constitute roughly 300,000 subscribers for 2002, and that's combined. Even out to 2007, these technologies will be on the fringe; combined in 2007, they should be still well under 2 million. Satellite and wireless are still relatively rare and are considered less attractive options for a lot of consumers. Satellite in particular doesn't have much uptake.

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