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China's broadband growth expected to top US
(internetnews.com)
Updated: 2005-12-25 09:55 At the rate it's going, China
will next year surpass the U.S. in new broadband access lines, according to
research published by telecommunications research firm Point-Topic Friday.
The figures from the U.K.-based firm's third-quarter report on broadband
statistics show the U.S. retained its broadband line growth crown for the first
nine months of 2005, with 40.9 million lines added, compared to China's 35
million. Japan ranked third with 20.9 million high-speed lines added.
China, however, added 3.6 million lines in the third quarter of 2005, the
report notes, compared to the United States' 2.7 million lines. The U.K. was the
third-largest with 900,000 lines.
"At current rates China will overtake the U.S. in [the fourth quarter of
2006] as the largest broadband country in the world," the Point-Topic note
states.
Overall the broadband market worldwide expanded the
total number of new lines by 37.9 million in the first nine months of 2005.
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