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China to Top U.S. in Broadband Subscribers

Posted by samzenpus on from the growing-faster dept.

An anonymous reader writes "China already is rapidly approaching the United States as the country with the largest number of broadband subscribers, according to the El Segundo, Calif.-based firm, and by the end of the year, China is expected to have 34 million subscribers, compared to 39 million in the United States. By the end of 2007, China is expected to have 57 million broadband subscribers, compared to 54 million in the United States, with an even wider lead in the years to follow."

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  1. i would hope so by hsmith · · Score: 5, Insightful

    considering they have 4x as many people than us in an are that is a bit more densely populated

  2. 1.1 Billion vs 280 Million by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a lot easier to have more subscribers/anything when you have almost 4 times the population.

    This isn't very interesting news at all.

    Next on slashdot: China Tops US in rice consumption.

    1. Re:1.1 Billion vs 280 Million by jmv · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Next: China tops US in fuel consumption. That's when it's going to get really scary (I guess it's already scary that 4% of the world population consumes 25% of the energy).

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    2. Re:1.1 Billion vs 280 Million by TheKidWho · · Score: 5, Insightful

      and also produces 25% of all goods.

      Makes sense doesn't it now? Turn off your selective memory.

  3. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    High speed access to everything the government wants them to see.

  4. But most of the content is unavailable... by binaryspiral · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So what if more people in China have broadband... most of the content of the Internet is monitored and filtered by the Chinese government.

    Score one for the rest of the free world.