Title: World Broadband
Tracker Q1 2006
Publication Date: June 2006
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Abstract
Latest research
from Quantum-Web suggests that the fastest growing
region on an annualized basis was “Other Europe”
with a vivid growth of 77.0%, whereas Latin America
with an annual growth rate of 72.1% has shown the
second fastest regional trend growth.
According to our findings,
the total number of broadband lines with an annual
increase of 36.4% from 155.8 million on 31 March 2005
now stands at a thumping 216.6 million in March 2006.
The growth was driven mainly
by the 36.4% and 48.7% increase in the number of broadband
lines in Asia-Pacific and European Union, to reach
80.3 and 63.8 million respectively by 31 March 2006.
The growth in North America was much slower at 24.8%,
to reach over 53.6 million lines by the same date.
The findings also
point to the fact that DSL with trend growth of 43%
reaching 148.7 million by 31 March 2006 is acting
as the engine of broadband growth. Cable Modem meanwhile
has shown a robust 21.9% growth approaching the 52
million lines by the same period.
FWA with 94.8%
annual growth shows the fastest access technology
whereas FTTx with 82.6% increase in the number of
broadband lines to 8.7 million is the third largest
access technology. “Other technologies”
and Satellite with 35.28.7% and 21.1% are less employed.
Graph 2 shows DSL, Cable Modem
and other technologies market share through the first
quarter of 2006.
