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Telecom Data Nugget: The number of high speed Internet lines grows fast. In 2004 we had 32,458,458 high speed Internet lines. Yearly growth is around 20%.


 

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High-Speed Lines (Over 200 kbps in at Least One Direction)

High-Speed Phone Lines


Total High Speed Phone Lines: Fiber, Coaxial Cable, Satellite, Wireless, ADSL

High-Speed Lines 1
(Over 200 kbps in at Least One Direction)
                
                
Types of Technology 2199920002001200220032004Percent Change
               
DecJunDecJunDecJunDecJunDecJun Jun 2003 -Dec 2003 -
 Dec 2003Jun 2004
                
                
 ADSL369,792 951,583 1,977,101 2,693,834 3,947,808 5,101,493 6,471,716 7,675,114 9,509,442 11,398,199 24%20%
 Other Wireline609,909 758,594 1,021,291 1,088,066 1,078,597 1,186,680 1,216,208 1,215,713 1,305,070 1,407,121 7 8 
 Coaxial Cable1,411,977 2,284,491 3,582,874 5,184,141 7,059,598 9,172,895 11,369,087 13,684,225 16,446,322 18,592,636 20 13 
 Fiber312,204 307,151 376,203 455,593 494,199 520,884 548,471 575,613 602,197 638,812 5 6 
 Satellite or Wireless50,404 65,615 112,405 194,707 212,610 220,588 276,067 309,006 367,118 421,690 19 15 
                
                
   Total Lines2,754,286 4,367,434 7,069,874 9,616,341 12,792,812 16,202,540 19,881,549 23,459,671 28,230,149 32,458,458 20%15%
                
NM - Not meaningful due to small number of lines.
Notes:  Residential and small business advanced services lines are estimated based on data from FCC Form 477.
1  A high-speed line is a connection to an end-user customer that is faster than 200 kbps in at least one direction.  Advanced services lines, which are a subset of high-speed lines, are connections to end-user customers that are faster than 200 kbps in both directions.  The speed of the purchased service varies among end-user customers.  For example, a high-speed service delivered to the end-user customer over other traditional wireline technology, such as DS1 or DS3 service, or over optical fiber to the end user's premises may be much faster than the ADSL or cable modem service purchased by a different, or by the same, end user.  Numbers of lines reported here are not adjusted for the speed of the service delivered over the line or the number of end users able to utilize the lines.
2  The mutually exclusive types of technology are, respectively:  Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) technologies, which provide speeds in one direction greater than speeds in the other direction; wireline technologies "other" than ADSL, including traditional telephone company high-speed services and symmetric DSL services that provide equivalent functionality; coaxial cable, including the typical hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) architecture of upgraded cable TV systems; optical fiber to the subscriber's premises (e.g., Fiber-to-the-Home, or FTTH); and satellite and terrestrial wireless systems, which use radio spectrum to communicate with a radio transmitter.  
Source:  Industry Analysis and Technology Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, High-Speed Services for Internet Access:  Status as of June 30, 2004 (December 2004).
  

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