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To: Scrapps who wrote (503)	8/3/2000 12:03:48 PM
From: Perry P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2404

Here is a nice article reminding us how much more market is out there untapped for DSL. semibiznews.com Europe's broadband Internet access will soon take off, says new report Semiconductor Business News (08/01/00, 04:24:30 PM EDT) AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands--Only 0.2% of European households had broadband access to the Internet in 1999, but more consumers are jumping aboard high-speed links to the Web as cost falls and infrastructure spreads across the continent, said a new report from Forrester Research B.V. The research firm here predicts that broadband Internet access will grow to 18% of European housholds, or 27 million subscribers, by 2005. Chip makers are counting heavily on the rapid growth of broadband Internet access through digital subscriber line (DSL) connections and cable modems. In Europe, Scandinavia will match the U.S. in the level of broadband access with penetration levels of 36-40% by 2005, according to the Forrester report. Germany's broadband Internet penetration level will be at 25% in five years, the report said, and the U.K. will be at 20% while France will be limited to 11%. "To date, broadband has been unavailable, unaffordable, and uninteresting to Europe's masses -- but change will come fast," said Lars Godell, analyst for Forrester. "Competition will radically expand coverage as cablecos and telcos battle it out. Forrester expects access prices to sink below 30 euros [$28] per month in 10 of 17 European countries by year-end 2002." Forrester said it expects cable modems and copper technologies like ADSL to share 80% of the total European residential broadband market by 2005, with asymmetrical DSL in the lead with 53% of all broadband connections. Perry P.