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Non-Tech : Amati investors
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To: j rector who wrote (3371)9/4/1996 12:30:00 AM
From: Techie   of 31386
 
Well, I don't have a figure to show total number of households in the world, nor do I know the total population...;). But here are some 1996 estimates.

US 163.1 million lines
Worldwide 729.5 million lines.

Definitely lots of copper no matter how you count it. What I was trying to say earlier is: we can't count on US not being the biggest market at least in the early years of deployment. And where there is no copper today I seriously doubt they will install copper. Figure the number would grow to over a billion copper lines by 2000. That's still a huge market left for DMT to compete in.
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