US Internet penetration by demographic profile

All parents	87%
Race/Ethnicity
White	92
Black	81
Hispanic	69?
Education
High school grad or less	76
Some college	91
College grad	99
Annual Household Income
Less than$30,000	66
$30,000-$49,999	80
$50,000-$74,999	91
$75,000+	97
Source: Pew Internet Project

4.2 mln Internet users signed up for fiber in Q1 2008

Fiber providers added 4.2 mln customers in Q1 2008, while 2.5 mln customers signed up for cable modems, according to Point Topic. The bulk of the new fiber subscribers are in China, where 2.5 mln signed up, for a total of 16.7 mln. US is in #4 place after Japan and Korea. Point Topic counted 303,000 new US fiber customers, for a total of 2.6 mln.

66% of teens live in households with broadband

% with broadband at home
All teens	66%
Parent Education
High school grad or less	56
Some college	67
College grad	82
Race/Ethnicity
White	70
Black	56
Hispanic	60
Annual Household Income
Less than $30,000	48
$30,000-$49,999	54
$50,000-$74,999	69
$75,000+	81
Source: Pew Internet Project

US cable companies added 1.19 mln new broadband subscribers in Q1 2008

Largest cable companies in the US added 1.19 mln broadband subscribers in Q1 2008, according to Leichtman Research Group. Phone companies added 1.01 mln DSL customers in Q1 2008. Since Q3 2004, phone companies had been adding subscribers faster than cable, closing in on cable’s lead in total subscribers. But that lead is now widening, with cable companies having a total of 34.7 mln subscribers compared with 29.5 mln at the phone companies.

35.3 mln cable and 29.7 mln DSL subscribers in the US in Q2 2008

The 20 largest cable and telephone companies added a net 887,000 high-speed Internet subscribers in Q2 2008, according to Leichtman Research Group. Cable companies now have 35.3 mln broadband customers, compared with 29.7 mln at the phone companies. AT&T remains the country’s largest Internet service provider, with 14.7 mln customers, ahead of Comcast with 14.4 mln.

253 mln Chinese Internet users, 214 mln of them use broadband

There were 253 mln Chinese Internet users in June 2008, China Internet Network Information Centre reported. Internet penetration in China is still at 19.1%. 214 mln, or 84.7% of all users, are connecting via broadband.

Worldwide consumer broadband connections will grow from 323 mln connections

Worldwide consumer broadband connections will grow from 323 mln connections in 2007 to 499 mln in 2012, according to Gartner. Worldwide consumer broadband connections penetrated 18% of households in 2007, and by 2012, households with a broadband connection will reach 25%. Five countries exceeded 60% broadband penetration into the home in 2007; and, this is expected to grow to 17 countries by 2012. The five countries with broadband penetration into the home above 60% are Canada, Netherlands, Switzerland, South Korea and Hong Kong.

Internet traffic up 53% in the last 12 months

According to TeleGeography, international Internet traffic grew 53% between mid-2007 and mid-2008, down from 61% the preceding year. Traffic growth between the US and Latin America was especially fast, surging 112%. Traffic on internet backbones between major cities in the relatively more mature US market rose a modest 47%. For the 2?? consecutive year, total international Internet capacity grew faster than total Internet traffic, leading to lower utilisation levels on many internet backbones. Between 2007 and 2008 average traffic utilisation levels decreased from 31% to 29%, while peak utilisation fell from 44% to 43%.

46% of US broadband users have DSL

DSL providers maintain an edge in the home broadband market, with 46% of home broadband users saying they subscribe to DSL and 39% saying they have cable modem service. As a home high-speed connection, wireless has also increased its presence – from next to nothing in 2002 up to 12% of the home broadband market as of May 2008, according to the Pew Internet Project.

US broadband users pay $34.50 a month on average

Home broadband users reported that their monthly payment for internet service was $34.50 – 4% less than the figure of $36 per month reported in December 2005.2 This decline in monthly broadband bills is half the rate (8%) reported over the February 2004 to December 2005 timeframe. As in 2005, there is a gap in what people pay for cable modem service compared to DSL, although it is narrower today than a few years ago. In December 2005, cable modem users reported monthly bills of $41 for service, while DSL users said they paid $32 per month for service. In May 2008, DSL users reported monthly internet access bills of $31.5 and cable modem users said they paid $37.5 for service, or an average difference of $6, according to the Pew Internet Project.

75% of home high-speed users said faster access or greater speed as advantage of broadband connection. Other uses cited as the feature valued most included the “always on”‘ connection (cited by 6% of broadband users), convenience (5%),broadband connectioneducational materials (2%). This is not to say that broadband users don’t value specific applications listed above (and others such as gaming and entertainment) that a high-speed connection enables. When pressed as to what might lure them into the ranks of home high-speed users, a plurality of dial-up respondents cited price. 35% of dial-up users said that they would switch to broadband if the price became more affordable and, as noted above, there remains a sizable gap in what dial-up users pay monthly for online access and what broadband users pay.

US broadband adoption in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008

Americans with broadband at home	2005	2006	2007	2008
Yearly adoption
All adults	33%	42%	47%	55%
Gender
Male	31	45	50	58
Female	27	38	44	53
Age
18-29	38	55	63	70
30-49	36	50	59	69
50-64	27	38	40	50
65+	8	13	15	19
Race /ethnicity
White (not Hispanic)	31	42	48	57
Black (not Hispanic)	14	31	40	43
Hispanic (English speaking)	28	41	47	56
Educational attainment
Less than high school	10	17	21	28
High school grad	20	31	34	40
Some college	35	47	58	66
College +	47	62	70	79
Household income
Under $20K	13	18	28	25
$20K-$30K	19	27	34	42
$30K-$40K	26	40	40	49
$40K-$50K	28	47	52	60
$50K-$75K	35	48	58	67
$75K-$100K	51	67	70	82
Over $100K	62	68	82	85
Community type
Urban	31	44	52	57
Suburban	33	46	49	60
Rural	18	25	31	38
Source: Pew Internet Project

28% of rural Americans without broadband say broadband is not available where they live

28% of rural adult Americans without home high-speed say broadband isn’t available where they live, in contrast to 22% of non-rural Americans without broadband who say this. Moreover, 24% of dial-up users in rural areas say having the service available where they live would prompt a switch to broadband; this compares to the 14% figure for all respondents, according to the Pew Internet Project.

Broadband connection depending on location in the US

	DSL	Cable	Fixed wireless or satellite	Fiber
Urban	45%	37%	10%	1%
Suburban	42	37	10	4
Rural	42	32	16	*

Interest in switching to broadband among Americans in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008

Oct 2002	Feb 2004	Dec 2005	May 2008
Yes, interested in broadband	38%	40%	39%	36%
No, not interested	57	58	60	62
% of all Americans with dial-up at home	38	30	25	10

China overtakes US in broadband

Both the USA and China had about 78 mln broadband lines at the end of August, but China grew twice as fast. In the USA, new broadband lines added fell from 3.4 mln in the last quarter of 2007 to barely 1.1 mln in Q2 2008. In China they rose from 3.5 mln to 5.0 mln in the same period. By the end of June 2008 Point Topic’s data shows the USA had nearly 76.9 mln broadband lines but China was less than 900,000 behind on 76.0 mln. The gap was less than the number China added in July alone, 1.14 mln according to Chinese official figures.

Korea’s fiber penetration reaches 12.2%

Korea had 12.2 fiber-optic connections per 100 inhabitants in June 2008, compared with 10.5 cable broadband connections, and 8.4 DSL connections. The fiber penetration rate jumped from 10.4% in the previous OECD survey in December 2007. Japan has a fiber penetration of 10.2%, followed by DSL with 9.6% and cable with 3.1%. The only country to come close to Korea and Japan is Sweden with six fibre-optic broadband connections per 100 inhabitants.

33% of US broadband households interested in remote viewing

33% of US broadband households are looking for ways to access their stored media content from outside the home, according to Parks Associates. 35% of these households consider remote viewing a highly appealing ability. 50 mln households worldwide will be using place-shifting solutions outside the home by 2012.

635 mln broadband users in 40 countries by 2013

As the total number of broadband lines in the world passes 400 mln, Point Topic forecasts that the total in the 40 biggest broadband countries in the world will grow from 393 mln by the end of 2008 to 635 mln by 2013. Broadband in the rest of the world will grow from 16 mln to 48 mln lines in the same period, so the world will add 273 mln lines to reach 683 mln in total. This represents a 10.8% per year compound growth rate, well down from 27.7% per year in the 2004 to 2008 period, but still substantial. One major reason for the slowdown in growth is that most of the richer countries are approaching saturation with broadband; new customers are becoming harder to find and sign up. At the same time poorer countries such as China and India have gone through the initial phase of rapid growth and are now growing steadily rather than exponentially.
Looking five years ahead, China is forecast to be well in front as the biggest broadband country, with 153 mln broadband lines against 117 mln in the USA. In fact China is expected to be already ahead of the USA by the end of 2008. India and Brazil are also expected to enter the Top 10, but Russia is forecast to be just outside at number 11. The story with broadband take-up – the%age of broadband lines per 100 population – will be rather different. Here Sweden, Germany and the USA are expected to be the biggest gainers as they start closing the gap with similar countries. Germany, which has been rather lagging in broadband until recently, is expected to gain most of all, increasing take-up from 26.4% to 42.4%. Denmark is expected to remain the most broadband-intensive major country, going from 37.0% to 46.3% take-up.

35 mln cellular modems shipped in 2008

Shipment data for the cellular modems used to connect laptops and netbooks to the Internet indicate that more than 35 mln of the devices hit the market in 2008. Of that total, the majority were the external USB modems that mobile operators have been pushing for some time. Continued growth has been bolstered as mobile operators have bundled USB modems with netbooks in attractively subsidized price plans. A further 3.5 mln were embedded modems, built into the computers, ABI Research found.

How Americans fix their broadband connection issues

When a home internet connection fails, broadband may be trickier to fix than dial-up without help from customer support. Based on those who reported a failed home internet connection, broadband users were much more likely to seek user support for help (49% v. 27%). The problems, however, were equally likely to be fixed, with just 6% of dial-up users and 7% of broadband users unable to fix the problem.

Internet connections mostly fail on users 50-64-years-old

All demographic groups are about equally likely to have certain devices fail them, though seniors who own cell phones are significantly less likely than younger cell phone owners to have problems with their cell phones. Just 18% of cell phone owners 65 years old and older reported that their cell phones had failed in the past year, while 26% of 50-64 year olds, 33% of 30-49 year olds and 30% of 18-29 year olds reported cell phone problems. Seniors are not as exclusively reliant on their cell phones as younger owners, and so they may have less wear and tear on their phones than do younger users who are more likely to experience cell phone failure. Significantly more seniors than 18-49 year olds who own cell phones also have landline phones at home. Fully 79% of senior cell phone owners also have regular phones, while just 30% of 18-29 year olds and 52% of 30-49 year olds have both types of phones.

89% of Americans with income over $75,000 subscribe to broadband

89% of all households with annual incomes over $75,000 subscribe to a broadband service – compared to 70% of households with incomes of $30,000-$75,000, and 37% of households with incomes under $30,000. 38% of households with annual incomes under $30,000 do not have a computer at home, and only half of households in this income group subscribe to any type of Internet service at home. 67% of broadband subscribers are very satisfied with their service – while just 4% are not satisfied. 29% of broadband subscribers are very interested in receiving faster Internet access at home – while 37% are not interested. Overall, 3% of Internet subscribers say that broadband is not available in their area

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• 89% of Americans with income over $75,000 subscribe to broadband
• Internet connections mostly fail on users 50-64-years-old
• How Americans fix their broadband connection issues
• 35 mln cellular modems shipped in 2008
• 635 mln broadband users in 40 countries by 2013
• 33% of US broadband households interested in remote viewing
• Korea’s fiber penetration reaches 12.2%
• China overtakes US in broadband
• Interest in switching to broadband among Americans in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008
• Broadband connection depending on location in the US
• 28% of rural Americans without broadband say broadband is not available where they live
• US broadband adoption in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008
• US broadband users pay $34.50 a month on average
• 54% of home broadband users subscribe to basic service
• 46% of US broadband users have DSL
• Internet traffic up 53% in the last 12 months
• 39% of US households will rent videos online by 2012
• 35.3 mln cable and 29.7 mln DSL subscribers in the US in Q2 2008
• 323 mln broadband users in 2007, 499 mln by 2012
• 253 mln Chinese Internet users, 214 mln of them use broadband
• 4.2 mln Internet users signed up for fiber in Q1 2008
• US Internet penetration by demographic profile
• 66% of teens live in households with broadband
• US cable companies added 1.19 mln new broadband subscribers in Q1 2008
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• US broadband access by demographic groups
• 55% of all Americans have broadband Internet access
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• 92 mln Europeans have broadband in 2007
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• $891.7 mln will be earned on fiber optic test equipment by 2013
• Consumer broadband value-added services up 81% in 2006
• 84% of UK Internet users have broadband
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Virgin Media Offers 100 Mbps Broadband Connection

The latest news reported today that Virgin Media has initiated their Ultra Fast 100 Mbps Broadband Connection in some parts of UK. Virgin Media said that the latest new connection of 100 Mbps is 20 times faster or speedy than exiting broadband connections. Under the news of company said that this latest broadband connection facility available for subscription to the regions of Farnborough, Colchester, Heckmond Wike and in some parts of South Wales in UK.

Virgin Media this latest broadband connection of 100 Mbps offered already discuss in October 2010 by the company. The company already said that we hope to target the homes and business networks around the whole UK with the better, efficient and high mobility Broadband Connection networks. The company already said that this latest broadband connections offer the users upload speed of 10 Mbps. Virgin Media said that it not only enhance the much fast and effective speedy internet through downloading, streaming but also more efficient in term of performance.

Virgin Media also said that we hope we will transform or convert the broadband connections speed from 100 Mbps to 400 Mbps in future. The users who want to get this latest Virgin Media broadband connection subscription it will have to pay £45 per month. The same offer also available but with the purchase of phone connection than the charges are £35 per month.