33.5Million EU Broadband Users
Posted: 26th May, 2004 By: MarkJ
A separate study from Strategy Analytics found that Europe will be home to an estimated 33.5million broadband users by the end of 2004 (20% of all homes):
By 2008, the figure will be 41 percent, with numbers going as high as 60 percent in places like Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium, where there are strong competitors to incumbent telecoms.
Indeed, Strategy Analytics indicated that healthy competition is the key to broadband growth and pointed out that in markets where an incumbent dominates -- such as the UK, Germany and Italy -- penetration hit only 13 percent to 15 percent of homes at the end of 2003, or about half the level of smaller counties with more dynamic telecoms markets such as Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark.
We note that the report was conducted with the 15 'old' EU member states, which does not take into account the additions from Eastern Europe. More @ ElectricNews.
By 2008, the figure will be 41 percent, with numbers going as high as 60 percent in places like Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium, where there are strong competitors to incumbent telecoms.
Indeed, Strategy Analytics indicated that healthy competition is the key to broadband growth and pointed out that in markets where an incumbent dominates -- such as the UK, Germany and Italy -- penetration hit only 13 percent to 15 percent of homes at the end of 2003, or about half the level of smaller counties with more dynamic telecoms markets such as Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark.
We note that the report was conducted with the 15 'old' EU member states, which does not take into account the additions from Eastern Europe. More @ ElectricNews.
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