25 million use dsl

[Mister Frag 0]

From http://www.theregus.com/content/5/26121.html

25m use DSL worldwide

By Tim Richardson

Posted: 08/28/2002 at 09:11 EST

More than 25 million homes and businesses around the world are hooked up to DSL, according to the latest stats from analysts Point Topic.

The figures show that the global take-up of DSL grew by 7 million (36 per cent) in the six months to the end of June despite ongoing industry and economic uncertainty.

Asia Pacific continues to lead the market with four out of ten of all the world's DSL subscribers, followed by North America with 26 per cent of global subscribers and Western Europe (25 per cent).

In South Korea, a quarter of all phone lines are hooked up to DSL, making it the number one broadband nation in the world and the place where broadband is truly a mass-market service.

It's followed by Taiwan (11 per cent penetration), Hong Kong (10 per cent) and Belgium (8 per cent). Canada comes in at number five, Germany at seven and the US at 17.

The UK fails to make the top 20.

Said Tim Johnson of Point Topic: "These figures show that there continues to be a robust demand for broadband. Even in the midst of economic slowdown and telecoms crisis, DSL rollout is still going ahead at a high rate." ®

[Guest]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ Aug. 28 2002,21:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">In South Korea, a quarter of all phone lines are hooked up to DSL, making it the number one broadband nation in the world and the place where broadband is truly a mass-market service.<span id='postcolor'>

I would like to question this data. In Sweden they started with ADSL a couple of years ago and have succesivly built up the infrastructure needed. From sometime last year all phone lines in Sweden are ADSL-capable - it is a 100% coverage. No matter where you live in Sweden you can get ADSL as long you have access to a phone line.

I think that Finland has the same situation.

Edit: Oops sorry. Did some checking and what I said isn't true. 90% of the Swedish population has since 2001 access to DSL enabled phone lines. They intend to have 100% coverage by 2008.

[Renagade 0]

Britain sucks for broadband no cable no adsl andd i dont live up some hill or on a farm

[Warin 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ Aug. 28 2002,21:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ Aug. 28 2002,21:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">In South Korea, a quarter of all phone lines are hooked up to DSL, making it the number one broadband nation in the world and the place where broadband is truly a mass-market service.<span id='postcolor'>

I would like to question this data. In Sweden they started with ADSL a couple of years ago and have succesivly built up the infrastructure needed. From sometime last year all phone lines in Sweden are ADSL-capable - it is a 100% coverage. No matter where you live in Sweden you can get ADSL as long you have access to a phone line.

I think that Finland has the same situation.

Edit: Oops sorry. Did some checking and what I said isn't true. 90% of the Swedish population has since 2001 access to DSL enabled phone lines. They intend to have 100% coverage by 2008.<span id='postcolor'>

Yes, but what are the actual connected numbers? Just because you can get DSL doesnt mean you have it. I think the stat being researched is actual connection, not possible connections.

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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Warin @ Aug. 29 2002,00:40)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Yes, but what are the actual connected numbers?  Just because you can get DSL doesnt mean you have it.  I think the stat being researched is actual connection, not possible connections.<span id='postcolor'>

Aha, I misunderstood it.

Sweden broadband connections (LAN, Cable & DSL):

(1999) 22%

(2001) 35%

(2005 - projected) 40%

Source: statistiska centralbyrĺn

[ralphwiggum 6]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ Aug. 28 2002,21:28)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Mister Frag @ Aug. 28 2002,21:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">In South Korea, a quarter of all phone lines are hooked up to DSL, making it the number one broadband nation in the world and the place where broadband is truly a mass-market service.<span id='postcolor'>

I would like to question this data. In Sweden they started with ADSL a couple of years ago and have succesivly built up the infrastructure needed. From sometime last year all phone lines in Sweden are ADSL-capable - it is a 100% coverage. No matter where you live in Sweden you can get ADSL as long you have access to a phone line.

I think that Finland has the same situation.

Edit: Oops sorry. Did some checking and what I said isn't true. 90% of the Swedish population has since 2001 access to DSL enabled phone lines. They intend to have 100% coverage by 2008.<span id='postcolor'>

sorry Denoir, but i think that number is under represented.

AFAIK, korea has a big ass DSL hook up rate due to

1) gov't subsidy

2) massive market

3) monopolistic provider

in korea, all lines are pretty much owned by a single gov't company called Korea Telecome. they own the back bone system, and there are several ISPs that can also tap into the resources.

somtime ago, Korean gov't announced some policy to promote internet connection throughout the nation(let's face it, it's smaller than California). and 50% of korean house holds have PC.

and on top of that, the internet connection they get is 256/256 or os. thus, not good, but nonetheless usable. and a lot of korean actually got DSL.

for example, here in California, there is something called PC bang(bang eans room in Korean). more known as cyber cafe's.

Korea has the highest number of cyber cafes in the world.

so Korea's Pc users have DSl 9 out of 10(that's number i remember) times. so that number is not surprising.

some links from google

http://www.cio-asia.com/pcio.ns....ocument

http://www.netone.co.jp/doc/seminar_docs/20010601_bbs/cyber.pdf

http://www.telechoice.com/presentations/DSLSuccessStories.pdf

[Die Alive 0]

Isn't Starcraft the biggest game in SK? I think I've read an article about how there's TV shows in Korea showing people playing Starcraft. I bet that drove up the demand for DLS connections.

-=Die Alive=-

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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ Aug. 29 2002,02:13)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">AFAIK, korea has a big ass DSL hook up rate due to

1) gov't subsidy

2) massive market

3) monopolistic provider<span id='postcolor'>

Points 1) and 2) is the case in Sweden too. The government has invested shitloads of money to reduce prices and most of all to guarantee availability to everyone. All telephone lines are owned by Telia (government owned) and other ISPs rent their lines.

[ralphwiggum 6]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Die Alive @ Aug. 29 2002,02:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Isn't Starcraft the biggest game in SK?  I think I've read an article about how there's TV shows in Korea showing people playing Starcraft.  I bet that drove up the demand for DLS connections.

-=Die Alive=-<span id='postcolor'>

yup... i heard it was a biggggggggg phenomenon....they even have a pro league!

the TV show also shows a lot of other games too. i heard OFP was on there for awhile.

[Mister Frag 0]

Ralph, you'll get a kick out of this story from The Register:

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Broadband = porno: World's biggest Luddite

By Tim Richardson

Posted: 08/30/2002 at 06:15 EST

Australia's Communications Minister - not best known for his love of the Internet - has explained why he thinks South Korea is the world's leading broadband nation.

In an interview with ABC last Sunday Senator Richard Alston was quizzed over a worrying report which claimed Australia has slipped behind other broadband nations.

Stuff and nonsense, said the Senator, who went on to deliver a rather positive spin on Australia's position, insisting that the country would become a broadband nation all in good time.

Which is a bit of a turnaround for the Senator who, as the interviewer pointed out, used to be anti-Internet claiming that it was just for "pornography and gambling".

Said Senator Alston: "Well for example, people will tell you that pornography is one of the major reasons why there's been a high take-up rate in South Korea. I haven't confirmed that at first instance but I've been there, I've looked at what's happening.

So there you have it. South Korea is the number one broadband nation thanks to porno.

It has nothing to do with the fact that the nation has high population density, which makes the roll-out of broadband networks to end users more cost effective; or a highly competitive Internet access sector that has helped drive down prices to some of the lowest in the world; or a willingness of its population to embrace technology.

Not to mention that South Koreans love to play computer games online, shop, do their banking, oh, and use it for education… ®

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What a nutjob...

[Sadico 1]

I've got ADSL. Here in Spain you can get 256kbps, 512kbps or 2000kbps, and it's not very expensive. Are ADSL's in other countries a lot faster?

[ralphwiggum 6]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Ralph, you'll get a kick out of this story from The Register:<span id='postcolor'>

LOL! funny article! yup, John Howard's ppl has limited reasoning capacity...

Sadico:

in LA county, Verizon has monopoly. they have either 128up/750down, or 256up/1500down. first one costs 45 USD per month, second one 55USD(I think)