Broadband DSL Maintains a Healthy Growth - Global Subscribers After First Half 2003 Reach 46.7 Million.Business Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2003 DSL Forum The DSL Forum is a world wide consortium of about 200 companies which are part of the different divisions of the telecommunication and information technology sector. The DSL Forum was founded in 1994 and is used as a platform for companies that operate in the broadband market. Announces Latest DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary Subscriber Data: USA Second Only to Japan in DSL Connections DSL connection n (Comput) → DSL-Anschluss m DSL - the world's most popular broadband technology broadband technology Telecommunications devices, lines, or technologies that allow communication over a wide band of frequencies, and especially over a range of frequencies divided into multiple independent channels for the simultaneous transmission of different signals. - added another 10.7 million subscribers in the first half of 2003 according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. new figures prepared for the international DSL Forum by London London, city, Canada London, city (1991 pop. 303,165), SE Ont., Canada, on the Thames River. The site was chosen in 1792 by Governor Simcoe to be the capital of Upper Canada, but York was made capital instead. London was settled in 1826. analyst firm, Point Topic. This brings the total number of subscribers to 46.7 million. North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. added 1.2 million new subscribers in the six month period, with Japan (at 8.257 million) being the only country overall with more connections than the USA's 7.575 million. Additionally, the USA's growth rate for the six months was the third largest globally; only Japan and China grew by more subscribers. Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). showed the greatest growth for the first two quarters, where 12.8 million homes and businesses are now using broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). DSL, second only to Asia-Pacific The term Asia-Pacific generally applies to littoral East Asia, Southeast Asia and Australasia near the Pacific Ocean, plus the states in the ocean itself (Oceania). at 17.8 million subscribers. Seven of the 54 countries that now have commercial broadband DSL services accounted for almost 75% of the world's subscriber growth: Japan added 2.6 million; China and the USA added in excess of one million each and four European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. countries added more than half a million new DSL subscribers each.
Greatest Growth in DSL Subscribers
1 January - 30 June 2003
Countries Adding over 500,000 New Subscribers
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Increase in
Total DSL DSL
Subscribers Subscribers
Country '000 '000
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Japan 8,257.1 2,617.1
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China 4,100.0 1,880.0
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USA 7,575.8 1,125.2
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UK 1,071.5 519.5
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France 2,039.0 673.2
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Germany 3,864.5 654.5
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Italy 1,435.0 525.0
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Announcing the figures at the Broadband World Forum in London today, said Michael Brusca, vice president of strategy for the DSL Forum: "Western Europe is no longer playing catch up in the broadband race. More than half of the countries showing the greatest subscriber growth and half of the top 20 for DSL are in the region. While most subscribers around the world currently have ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (communications, protocol) Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - (ADSL, or Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop) A form of Digital Subscriber Line in which the bandwidth available for downstream connection is significantly larger then for upstream. ), an increasing number of businesses are using SHDSL SHDSL Single-Line High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line SHDSL Symmetrical High-Density Digital Subscriber Line SHDSL Symmetrical High Bitrate Digital Subscriber Line (Ericsson) SHDSL Symmetrical Highspeed Digital Subscriber Loop (symmetric DSL See DSL. ), and VDSL See DSL. VDSL - Very high bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (very high bit rate DSL) is now being rolled out to deliver bandwidth hungry applications such as entertainment." Six of the top ten countries showing fastest growth in DSL subscribers just started serious commercial deployment of broadband: Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. , Malaysia, Ireland, Poland, Columbia and Mexico. Fastest
growth amongst established markets was Israel, where greater than 10% of
telephone lines are now delivering the benefits of broadband DSL. At
94.1% growth, the United Kingdom is the fastest growing country in
Western Europe, for the first six months of the year, achieving its
first million subscribers to DSL services. Singapore and China, both
showed growth of around 85%.The DSL Forum has set a target for a global mass market for broadband DSL - 20% of all phone lines - 200 million subscribers by the end of 2005. South Korea remains the only country in the world to have achieved mass market status with 29.7% of its phone lines delivering DSL services using a combination of ADSL and VDSL. A further seven countries have achieved in excess of 10% phone line penetration, four have reached more than 9% and another eight are at greater than 5%.
Top 20 Countries: DSL Penetration of Phone Lines
30 June 2003
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Total DSL/
Total phone 100 phone
Subscribers lines lines
Country '000 '000 %
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South
1 Korea 6,811.0 22930 29.70
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2 Taiwan 2,141.6 12949 16.54
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3 Hong Kong 629.0 3912 16.08
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4 Japan 8,257.1 53142 15.54
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5 Belgium 644.0 5090 12.65
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6 Denmark 378.0 3287 11.50
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7 Iceland 20.0 191 10.47
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8 Israel 325.0 3119 10.42
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9 Singapore 192.0 1951 9.84
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10 Germany 3,864.5 40669 9.50
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11 Finland 259.4 2791 9.29
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12 Canada 1,868.0 20427 9.14
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13 Sweden 484.4 5956 8.13
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14 Norway 187.5 2307 8.13
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15 Switzerland 317.0 4089 7.75
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16 Estonia 38.0 504 7.53
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17 Spain 1,301.6 17772 7.32
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18 France 2,039.0 34027 5.99
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19 Italy 1,435.0 24486 5.86
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20 Netherlands 543.0 9995 5.43
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"Supporting the growth of DSL towards a global mass market, the Forum and its members focus on drivers that will increase the quality and availability of value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. services and the uptake uptake /up·take/ (up´tak) absorption and incorporation of a substance by living tissue. up·take n. of DSL for both households and businesses," said David Greggains, vice president of operations for the DSL Forum. "Our latest technical reports (TR-058 and TR-059) on IP-centric Architecture Evolution are central to developing protocols necessary for quality of service for IP delivered offerings. This work will ensure that DSL provides an excellent platform for advanced services and together with our work on interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. and network management, will lead to accelerated market growth. In parallel, the DSL Forum continues to promote the benefits of broadband DSL for all end user groups, through initiatives like DSLHome(TM), which is focused on educating users on how to best use their DSL connection for a networked home." Point Topic's global broadband DSL data over the past five years shows a trend towards greater subscriber take up in the second half of each year. Expectations are that global figures will reach 60 million DSL subscribers by the end of 2003. "It's great to see how DSL has grown. Four years ago only a few hundred thousand lines were in place around the world. Since then we've had the bursting telecom bubble A bit in bubble memory or a symbol in a bubble chart. and widespread recession, but DSL has kept powering on," says Tim Johnson, founder of Point Topic. About the DSL Forum DSL Forum is an international industry consortium of nearly 200 leading service providers, equipment manufacturers and other interested parties focused on developing the full potential of broadband DSL to meet the needs of the mass market. With the established goal of 200 million customers by 2005, DSL Forum works to streamline processes, develop specifications and share best practices that set the stage for effective deployments and explosive global DSL growth. By developing new standards and embracing new applications, DSL Forum is tailoring DSL to meet the needs of the next generation of multi-media services and the online community. Established in 1994, more information about the DSL Forum is available from its industry site www.dslforum.org. Information tailored to end-users is available on www.dsllife.com. DSL - more than a phone line - it's a global solution. About Point Topic Point Topic provides in-depth analysis of the business issues concerning broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , especially DSL. Summary data provided at this press conference will be based on more detailed data that will be published by Point Topic shortly. For details go to: www.point-topic.com. |
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