Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Posted by Roberto
11:20 AM
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U.S. BROADBAND ADOPTION JUMPS 33 PERCENT IN 2005
U.S. BROADBAND MARKET OVERVIEW
The FCC has reported 50.2 million broadband internet access lines in the U.S. in 2005, an increase of 10.4 million lines over one year (33 percent increase). The total includes both consumer and business subscriptions.
DSL subscriptions increased by 5.7 million lines over the year compared with 4.2 million new cable modem lines. Although DSL added more lines, cable still leads the market share with 57.5 percent, compared to DSL's 40.5 percent.
The remainder consists of SDSL at 0.5 percent, fiber connections to the end user's location at 0.2 percent, and 0.5 percent for other methods of connection like satellite, electric power line, and terrestrial fixed or mobile wireless.
CONSEQUENCES ON TELEPHONY
Due to this trend of increasing broadband penetration, US Voice over IP users (VoIP requires a minimum of 90 Kbps in both directions to work) are expected to more than triple in the next 4 years, jumping from 10.3 million to 44 million in 2010.
CONSEQUENCES ON THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
In the US, music downloads - fee based rather than subscription services - now account for 25 percent of music sales, especially among the 25-54 age groups. The under 25s mainly use peer to peer sites, plus they download music videos, ring-tones and movies.
Federal Communications Commission
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