High-speed connection jumped 158 percent in 2000 - JGH
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 — The number of high-speed Internet connections in the United States jumped 158 percent last year,
with 7.1 million lines reaching homes and businesses, the Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday.
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THE BIGGEST JUMP came in asymmetric digital subscriber line (DSL) service, in which the download speed is faster than the
uplink, which soared 435 percent to 2 million lines, the agency said.
Meanwhile, 3.6 million lines offering high-speed Internet service were over coaxial cable systems last year, a 153 percent increase
over 1999, according to the FCC’s twice-yearly report.
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Approximately 5.2 million lines were to residential and small businesses. About 4.3 million of the total high-speed lines provided
two-way 200-plus kilobits per second service, up 118 percent for the year, the report said.
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Additionally, the provision of high-speed access via satellite and fixed-wireless technology, while nascent, more than doubled to
112,000 lines last year from 50,000 the prior year.
There were subscribers in 75 percent of the nation’s zip codes last year, up from 56 percent at the end of 1999, according to the
FCC. |
