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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."

2 of 530 comments (clear)

  1. Dishnet aims for India-wide WiFi coverage in 2 yrs by anandpur · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Other news by 2007 every Indian can be Subscribers of Broadband

    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=tech nologyNews&storyID=8386370

  2. Not that simple. by fm6 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    1.1 billion people is just so many warm bodies --they mean nothing unless they're part of a vital economy. Fifty years the population ratio was almost as lopsided, but the Chinese couldn't even feed themselves, much less buy fancy technology. At that time, the U.S. dominated the planet in infrastructure, manufacturing base, skilled workforce, advanced, raw economic power, and a lot of other factors. Not led, dominated.

    In 1955, most people wouldn't have had any notion what "Broadband Internet Access" was. But if you could make them understand that it was a key technology of the 21st century, and that it would be more available in China than in the U.S....

    An American would have reported you to the FBI for spreading commie propaganda. And a Chinese would have shaken his head at your obvious dementia. The U.S. has lost its edge, and this is another sign of it.