London, 13 Dec 2004— Broadband steady growth in Europe.

London, December 13th 2004- Throughout Europe , the number of broadband access lines has increased from 29.84 million at the end of Q2 2004 to 32.79 million at the end of September 2004.

The report - European Broadband Statistics Q3 2004 Report - is based on extensive research conducted with 109 operators featured across 36 European Countries

During the third quarter of 2004, people in countries like Poland and Czech Republic have shown a great interest toward broadband. For instance, Poland has registered the fastest growing broadband market in Europe at 64.07% in the third quarter of 2004. During the same period, Denmark and the Austria registered the lowest broadband growth with 2.86 and 3.44 respectively.

In absolute terms, Germany with 550,000, France with 521,000 and the UK with 447,846 new broadband subscribers were the top three nations in our European net addition matrix.