2009: China up 22M to 104M and domination

Point_Topic_2009China added three times as many broadband subscriptions in 2009 than the U.S. and the 18M subscriber gap is almost as many as the total broadband customers in France or Britain. The ever-invaluable Point-Topic figures show Mexico and India surprise third and fourth. Argentina, Russia and especially Brazil are doing better than many realize, and Vietnam added almost as many subscribers as Italy or Britain.

China, India, and Russia all grew by over 20%. The U.S., Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, and Italy all grew 7-10%; Britain and Canada were a little lower.
Japan, with 80% fiber availability, has the best built Internet in the world but only grew 3%. The 65% household penetration is comparable to Germany or Spain. Effective prices have gone up substantially in the last few years as the government has allowed NTT fiber to dominate after some of the most vigorous DSL competition in the world early in the decade. Japan has long had the most advanced mobile data devices; I suspect what's going on is that many Japanese are content with mobile.
Taiwan's 1% growth rate probably has a similar cause.
Many thanks to Point-Topic for allowing me access to their comprehensive data and their extremely easy to use tools. Compared to other market researchers, their prices are very reasonable. Written by Dave Burstein


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