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High-Speed Net Users in Asia to Quadruple by 2004: Dataquest 12/19/00 3:04:00 AM Source: Bloomberg News Singapore, Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The number of high-speed Internet subscribers in Asia will more than quadruple to 35 million by 2004 from 7.6 million this year, mainly on soaring use in Korea, said market researcher Dataquest Inc. The nation's 3 million broadband Internet users outnumber any other country in Asia, including Japan, said Dataquest, a unit of Gartner Group Inc. Korea ''is experiencing nothing short of a broadband phenomenon,'' said Andrew Chetham, a regional Internet analyst at Gartner Dataquest. The North Asian country, which is second only to the United States in subscriber numbers, has become the world's fastest growing high-speed Internet market, as users snap up the latest technology from Internet service providers such as Hanaro Telecom Inc. and Korea Thrunet Co. High-speed connections, either through cable television or copper phone lines with special adaptors, enable access up to 100 times faster than over a conventional modem and phone line. Downloading music or video files, two common uses of the Internet, takes seconds using broadband. A similar operation is either impossible or can take hours using a conventional modem connection. DSL Technology Most Asian users will switch to high-speed digital subscriber line, or DSL technology, reaching 20 million users in the region by 2004, Dataquest said. The biggest market for the technology will remain Korea, with 14 million DSL users by that time. Broadband cable television access lags behind DSL in Asia because of markets are fragmented, the research company said. Asian cable operators ''serve small, localized markets and, as a result, it is not easy to build a critical mass of broadband subscribers to gain economies of scale,'' Chetham said, who estimates 14 million Asian broadband subscribers will use cable modems by 2004. Singapore, the first country in the world to offer DSL services, has seen slow subscriber growth, attracting about 30,000 users in the first three years, said To Chee Eng, senior telecommunications analyst at Gartner. Singapore Cable Vision began offering cable modem services earlier this year. Broadband users in Singapore are expected to exceed 100,000 by year end, To said. By 2004, Singapore will have 421,000 subscribers using DSL and 186,000 using cable modem services, the research company said.