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Global broadband connections – Asia is leading in growth

October -  The Broadband forum announced the growth in global broadband connections for the second quarter of 2009.  During this period almost 13 million connections were added, which brings the estimated total broadband connections to 445 million worldwide.  China leads with almost 94 million connections, a growth well over 20% compared to the same period last year (2008).  The US comes in second with 86 million connections, and Japan third will around 31 million connections. The broadband make up is still that DSL holds most of the connections, with a share of around 64% worldwide. Cable comes in second with 21% and optical fiber around 13%.  IPTV traffic grew to around 27 million connections.  The Asian market is the fasted growing market in number of connections, especially China. Japanese growth has slowed down as the market has reached its saturation level.

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