DSL By The Numbers, Q4

DSL grew by 3.2% to 266.2M. Broadband now reaches 50-80% of homes in developed countries, a good thing. That results in lower rates of net additions, and the 13.8 million in (mostly wireline) broadband net adds were the lowest in many years. Looking back, the 19.6 in Q1 2007 will probably be unsurpassed. Around the world, 26% of homes - 1 in 4 - are connected.

China 64,251,000 3.41%
USA 32,217,443 2.05%
Germany 21,170,800 2.58%
France 16,445,000 3.21%
UK 13,663,000 2.21%
Italy 11,798,000 3.36%
Japan 11,685,000 -2.91%
Spain 7,189,980 2.26%
Canada 6,709,300 4.94%
Turkey 5,752,500 4.54%
Australia 5,716,000 6.01%
Mexico 5,072,163 14.82%
India 4,387,738 9.72%
Brazil 4,300,756 1.17%

The shift to fiber resulted in a DSL drop of 3.79% in South Korea to 3,718,134 and 4% in Taiwan to 3,241,000 in Taiwan. Vietnam quarterly growth was an impressive 13% to 2,047,000.

All these figures are from the ever-invaluable Point-Topic , http://point-topic.com/, which also supplies the figures for the DSL Forum. There are some oddities in the Chinese figures, probably a result of the re-organized companies using different definitions. China Telecom remained steady at 700K net adds, so the changes measured by other companies are likely an artifact. China Telecom continues to lose as many as 2M landline customers/month in the switch to mobile.Written by Dave Burstein


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