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China leads world on broadband

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  • 05-10-2004 10:47am
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    dahamsta
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    China leads world on broadband
    By Jo Twist
    BBC News Online science and technology staff

    China is leading the world in the number of subscribers to high-speed net through phone lines, says a report.

    The number of broadband subscribers via DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) has doubled in a year to 13 million.

    Industry analyst David Greggains said it was "amazing growth," but was still only 6% of China's total phone lines.

    The DSL Forum, an international broadband consortium, said high-speed DSL net grew globally with 30 million new subscribers over the last year.

    "Worldwide, the number of subscriptions has grown amazingly," Mr Greggains, a vice president of the DSL Forum, told BBC News Online.

    "By the end of June 2004, there were 78 million subscriptions worldwide.

    "At this current growth rate, we confidently expect that around December this year, it will hit 100 million."

    [...]
    ..."except in Ireland", he added. "Those muppets are letting the incumbent, the OLOs, the regulators and the Government get away with murder. Serve them right, the lazy feckers."


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