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This Morning's Industry News |
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Written by Ken DiPietro
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Wednesday, 13 April 2005 |
This morning we have two news brought to us courtesy of DSLReports.
As quoted from the first article:
"The U.S. broadband market is expected to reach an estimated 56.9 million subscribers by 2008, growing from 32.5 million subscribers in 2004, according to the 2005 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast, an annual study of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). The broadband market has grown substantially since 2001, whenthere were only 5.1 million subscribers."
In 2004, the number of high-speed subscribers in the United States grew by 35.4% to reach 32.5 million subscribers, consisting of the following access technologies: cable modem (17.0 million), DSL (12.6 million), fixed wireless (2.2 million), fiber-to-the-home (0.2 million), satellite (0.4 million), mobile wireless (3G) (0.1 million), and broadband over power line (less than 50,000)."
As you can see, Fixed Wireless has a long way to go to catch up to either DSL or Cable but we are forecast to have 11 times the penetration of fiber.
"When it comes to broadband, the U.S. is still in the stone knives and bear skins era. Fast phones, online educational courses, and free access in hotels and public places is fairly common in Asia. More importantly,
the infrastructure is paving the way for new generations of start-ups.
But the U.S. is waking up, said Peter Morris, a partner at New Enterprise Associates at the VentureOne Summit taking place in San Francisco this week.
'Communication infrastructure is totally related to gross domestic product per capita," he said. "At some point, there is going to be a national initiative. By the end of the decade, there are going to be some non-linear (i.e. big and unexpected) events in communications to let the U.S. catch up with the rest of the world.'"
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