Cable Broadband Subs Top 105 Million Worldwide: Study

Fiber-To-The-Home Connections To More Than Double From 2009-2014, ABI Forecasts

By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 2/5/2010 12:11:10 PM

About 105 million subscribers worldwide are currently connected to cable broadband services, representing 25% of all broadband users, with 65% hooked up via DSL and 11% fiber-to-the-home, according to market research firm ABI Research.

The number of fixed broadband subscribers reached more than 422 million at the end of 2009, up 9% from 2008, with ABI attributing the increased penetration to operators offering multiplay bundles and lowering access prices.

ABI forecasts that worldwide wireline broadband subscribers will increase to 501 million at the end of 2014 -- with most of the growth in fiber-to-the-home connections. FTTH will more than double over that time period, from 44 million at the end of 2009 to about 106 million in 2014, the research firm estimates.

"File sharing, music downloads, IPTV, online gaming and videoconferencing are all acting to increase the user demand for high speed Internet. The number of fiber broadband subscribers is increasing with growing popularity of these services," ABI analyst Khin Sandi Lynn said.

The Asia-Pacific region has the highest fiber broadband penetration, representing nearly 84% of worldwide fiber broadband subscribers, followed by North America. Japan's NTT is the largest fiber broadband operator with approximately 12 million subscribers. In 2009, Western Europe had only about 2 million fiber-to-the-home broadband subscribers, according to ABI.

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