700 Million Broadband Subscribers By 2013 [GigaOM]
A new research report by Telegeography indicates that we'll all have much more company on the Internet in the next few years. By the end of 2013, the research firm predicts that 700 million customers worldwide will have broadband Internet. That's growth of 72% over the current number of broadband customers.
Most of the growth in broadband is expected to be in the Asia-Pacific region. Telegeography's report also covers the growth explosion that's expected in mobile phones and the contraction in wireline phone. When combining customers of all three services, the firm predicts that half of all customers worldwide in 2013 will be in the Asia-Pacific region up from 28 percent today.
And even though North America is predicted to represent only 7 percent of worldwide broadband, mobile and wireline phone customers by 2013, we disproportionately will account for 23% of global market value.
The world is still experiencing the communications revolution that the Internet has spawned and cable broadband technology accelerated, and this tremendous growth that's expected in broadband customers is testament to that.
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