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DSL subscriber base crosses 100 M mark
By siliconindia
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Friday, 11 March 2005, 20:30 IST
NEW DELHI:Global DSL subscriber base sailed past the 100 million mark in February with most developing countries recording excellent growth, a survey released today said.
The survey revealed that people are choosing DSL for broadband access at the rate of one every second. Growth in DSL - the world's most popular broadband technology - approached 60 percent, with over 96 million global DSL subscribers by the year-end.
Newer broadband markets showed the fastest growth throughout 2004. Turkey, which is now approaching half a million DSL subscribers, showed 725 percent increase in the year, the Czech Republic 589 percent and Ireland 351 percent while Mexico, Malaysia, New Zealand and Lithuania all experienced growth of 100 percent or more.
Established DSL markets also sustained strong growth in subscriber numbers. China, the world's largest DSL population, saw a 2004 increase in DSL subscribers of more than 8.5 million. In the USA, one of the few countries where DSL does not yet dominate the broadband market, another 3.93 million DSL subscribers were added.
"It is a significant success to have reached the 100 million subscriber milestone, with rapid growth in every region of the world", said Steve Kingdom, newly elected president of the DSL Forum. "It is also fitting that this accomplishment was announced at CeBIT 2005, as consumer electronics and the connected home have been, and will continue to be, major drivers in DSL deployment. We must now turn our sights to facilitate the achievement of our target of 500 million DSL subscribers by 2010".