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How Will the Euro Broadband Market Look in 2010?

Posted by Cliff on from the stepping-forward-or-falling-backward dept.

JimboG1 asks: "Yahoo News has posted a Reuters story looking at the relative positions of the cable companies and the telecos in Europe by 2010. Market analyst Lars Godell of Forrester predicts that the cable companies will fall behind the telecos in coming years as their lack of capital and bad reputations catch up with them. Does Slashdot feel this is realistic, considering telecos across Europe are failing to meet their penetration targets? More broadly, what will the European broadband market look like in 2010?"

3 of 27 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Three words... by Dr.Opveter · · Score: 2, Informative

    In less than a year i've seen my cable subscription (in Europe) go from 1.5Mbps/256Kbps to 4Mbps/1Mbps for the same price in several upgrades.

    I'm not complaining.

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    Sample this!
  2. Re:Three words... by JimboG1 · · Score: 2, Informative
    I see one of the major differences between the US market and the European market as the density of potential customers for the telecos, cable companies, and even satelite companies.

    The US is home to around 270 million people spread across roughly 3.5 million square miles. The EU is now home to about 450 million people, after the recent expansion, spread over only 1.4 million square miles (http://www.eubusiness.com/guides/enlarged_EU/).

    I'm no mathematician, but to me this gives the EU a much higher population density than the US, and therefore a built in advantage.

    keiferb, would you say this was the predominant reason or am I missing something?

  3. Re:53%? by JimboG1 · · Score: 2, Informative
    Check-out http://www.dti.gov.uk/industries/telecoms/pdf/uk_b roadband_status_report_july_2004.pdf/ for the latest on the UK situation.

    I don't know of anything that compiles data across the 25 Member States.