China pulls ahead on DSL usage
Adds five million subscribers in nine months
By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 09 December 2004, 10:12
THE DSL FORUM released figures showing the top 20 subscribers up to the third quarter this year.
The figures show that by region, the €uropean Union has the largest regional DSL population worldwide for the first three quarters of this year - amounting to 26.5 million for the period. But such comparisons with other regions such as the Middle East and Africa and the Americas are a little misleading, given the spread and population demographics of these areas.
A better guide is by country. The DSL forum said that China added 5.14 million subscribers during the period, which accounts for over 90 per cent of the South and South East Asia totals.
Latin America is showing a surge, with 1.2 million subscribers between January and September, amounting to 1.2 millions - half of these are accounted for by Brazil, with Mexico, Argentina and Peru the next three major countries in line.
Here's the DSL Forum's top 10, by country. There's too many numbers with "000" at the end in our view. The next 10 countries are Brazil, Netherlands, Belgium, Auatralia, Hong Kong, Sweden, Switzerland, Israel and Denmark. µ
Position
Country
Subscribers
One
China
13,700,000
Two
Japan
12,739,564
Three
USA
12,594,346
Four
S. Korea
6,717,251
Five
Germany
5,950,000
Six
France
5,253,000
Seven
Italy
3,680,000
Eight
Great Britain
3,335,000
Nine
Taiwan
2,900,000
Ten
Canada
2,568,351
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