DSL Continues To Top World Broadband Count

from telecomweb (27 Oct 2007)

Continues to dominate the world broadband picture, with a 65.87-percent market share, according to research done by Point Topic for the DSL Forum, which says the percentage is virtually unchanged from a year ago.

Cable broadband comes in a fairly distant second at 21.89 percent, and most of that is represented by the dominance of cable in the United States and Canada, the only two countries in the world where cable broadband holds sway.

The DSL Forum figures broadband delivered via fiber at 10.8 percent worldwide, but those estimates are challenged by the rival FTTH (fiber to the home) Council, which thinks the DSL folks are behind the times in their count. Satellite, at 0.28 percent, and “other” at 1.16 percent represent the mélange of Ku-band and Ka-band satellite, broadband over powerline (BPL), wireless broadband of all ilk and perhaps even jungle drums.