BB growth doubles in Europe and US

Dangger

Wow!

From El Reg

2002 was a bumper year for broadband in Europe as the number of punters hooking up to high-speed Net access more than doubled to 13.4 million and access revenues topped $4bn.

But as broadband becomes more mass market, it seems ISPs will have to do more to make themselves stand out from the crowd.

Ha! Consider Ireland's situation, but then again there is one ISP I can safely say is attempting to do just this.

Said IDC analyst Jan Hein Bakkers: "As the market is maturing, an increasing number of operators will have to differentiate their product portfolios, to appeal to as wide an audience as possible."

This will have to be done against the backdrop of incumbent telcos continuing to play a major role in the BB landscape - not only as the provider of wholesale DSL network connections, but also as retail ISPs.

Elsewhere, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reported yesterday that the number of high speed connections in the US more than doubled last year to just under 20 million lines

trunks

ths internet thing will never catch on it's all just hype any way

flav0rflav

In the UK the ISPs are at least able to differentiate, there are 64 different wholesale products. From the incumbant, the LLU'ers and the cable people:

BT - 14
Bulldog Communications Ltd. - 34
Easynet Ltd. - 11
ntlworld - 3
Telewest - 2

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/isps/wholesaleinfo.asp

How many have we? Less than the number of ISPs (with the addition of UTV). How can there be product differentiation?

De Rebel

and all this without a "Killer App"