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164 Million Broadband Subscribers Worldwide

Posted by timothy on from the when-alabama-gets-the-bomb dept.

prostoalex writes "164 million people on this planet have a broadband connection, ZDNet reports, with 52 million broadband lines sold between March 2004 and March 2005. USA, China, UK, Japan and France currently lead the world in number of broadband hookups available. Poland was the first Eastern European country to join the 'million broadband lines' club."

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  1. Re:Prices? by Jacer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Internet 2 is for research facilities only. Universities don't want your zombie subnets chewing up their much needed bandwidth.

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