Tuesday, March 15, 2005
DSL Growing Fast: "DSL Growing Fast
Published: March 15, 2005
(After March 22, 2005, this article will only be available to eStat Database subscribers.)
There are more than 100 million DSL subscribers worldwide, according to new data from Point Topic.
With a new subscriber signing up for DSL every second, the technology grew by 60% overall in 2004, totaling 96 million subscribers worldwide by year-end, and 100 million by February 2005. Generally, 'new' broadband markets grew faster than established broadband nations. For example, the number of DSL subscribers in Turkey grew by 725% in 2004, while the Czech Republic's subscriber base expanded by 589% and Ireland's grew by 351%. The actual number of subscribers in these countries was still low, however -- Turkey had only 500,000 DSL lines at the end of 2004. Some countries with large DSL markets did grow at 100% or greater, including the UK, France and China.
Although established DSL markets may be growing at a slower pace, they continue to add large numbers of subscribers. China added 8.56 million DSL subscribers in 2004, retaining its place as the largest DSL population in the world. Almost 4 million subscribers were added in the US, while France added 3.25 million DSL lines and the UK's subscriber base grew by 2.28 million.
Europe is still the largest single market both in terms of subscribers and revenues. According to Infonetics Research, the EMEA region accounted for 36% of DSL revenues in 2004, followed closely by the Asia-Pacific region with 33%. North America comprised 23% of the market, with CALA (Central America and Latin America) making up the remaining 8%.
Point Topic reports that DSL technology usage is beginning to expand beyond ADSL. A faster variant of asymmetrical DSL, ADSL2, is growing in countries like France, Norway and Sweden, and is set to roll out in the Netherlands and the US in the next couple of years. VDSL connections, which allow downstream rates of about 5 times those of conventional ADSL, numbered over 5 million by the end of 2004, primarily in countries like China, Japan and, especially, South Korea, where VDSL is used for the majority of connections. Additionally, Infonetics notes that shipments of VDSL ports in IP DSLAMs (digital subscriber line access multiplexers) have grown from 12% of IP DSLAM ports in 2003 to 52% in 2008. Finally, symmetrical DSL (SDSL), in which upload and download speeds are equally fast but cannot be used simultaneously with voice on phone line, accounted for 1.2 million subscribers by the end of 2004.
To learn more about this topic, see eMarketer's recently released the North America Broadband report. Our report covering the European market will be released later this month — Sign up to be notified when it is released. "
Published: March 15, 2005
(After March 22, 2005, this article will only be available to eStat Database subscribers.)
There are more than 100 million DSL subscribers worldwide, according to new data from Point Topic.
With a new subscriber signing up for DSL every second, the technology grew by 60% overall in 2004, totaling 96 million subscribers worldwide by year-end, and 100 million by February 2005. Generally, 'new' broadband markets grew faster than established broadband nations. For example, the number of DSL subscribers in Turkey grew by 725% in 2004, while the Czech Republic's subscriber base expanded by 589% and Ireland's grew by 351%. The actual number of subscribers in these countries was still low, however -- Turkey had only 500,000 DSL lines at the end of 2004. Some countries with large DSL markets did grow at 100% or greater, including the UK, France and China.
Although established DSL markets may be growing at a slower pace, they continue to add large numbers of subscribers. China added 8.56 million DSL subscribers in 2004, retaining its place as the largest DSL population in the world. Almost 4 million subscribers were added in the US, while France added 3.25 million DSL lines and the UK's subscriber base grew by 2.28 million.
Europe is still the largest single market both in terms of subscribers and revenues. According to Infonetics Research, the EMEA region accounted for 36% of DSL revenues in 2004, followed closely by the Asia-Pacific region with 33%. North America comprised 23% of the market, with CALA (Central America and Latin America) making up the remaining 8%.
Point Topic reports that DSL technology usage is beginning to expand beyond ADSL. A faster variant of asymmetrical DSL, ADSL2, is growing in countries like France, Norway and Sweden, and is set to roll out in the Netherlands and the US in the next couple of years. VDSL connections, which allow downstream rates of about 5 times those of conventional ADSL, numbered over 5 million by the end of 2004, primarily in countries like China, Japan and, especially, South Korea, where VDSL is used for the majority of connections. Additionally, Infonetics notes that shipments of VDSL ports in IP DSLAMs (digital subscriber line access multiplexers) have grown from 12% of IP DSLAM ports in 2003 to 52% in 2008. Finally, symmetrical DSL (SDSL), in which upload and download speeds are equally fast but cannot be used simultaneously with voice on phone line, accounted for 1.2 million subscribers by the end of 2004.
To learn more about this topic, see eMarketer's recently released the North America Broadband report. Our report covering the European market will be released later this month — Sign up to be notified when it is released. "
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