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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:This is the Internet Calling by Mistlefoot · · Score: 0, Redundant
    This is reality calling as well. According the last census in Canada (1996) we have just over 10 million households.

    http://www.statcan.ca/english/census96/table1.htm/

    According to the stats shown we have 5,000,000 million ACTIVE high speed hook-ups.

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=8160/

    I just don't buy that HALF of the households in Canada have active high speed internet connectivity. Availability, yes. But active. No.