The U.S. continues to lead the world in total number...
The U.S. continues to lead the world in total number of wired broadband subscriptions but remains 15th in subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said Wednesday. Its broadband statistics as of December 2011 (http://xrl.us/bnhbfp) showed…
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Switzerland in top place in fixed broadband subscription penetration for the first time, closely followed by the Netherlands and Denmark. Japan is No. 2 in total number of fixed subscribers, after the U.S., the OECD said. Fixed wired subscriptions reached 314 million in the OECD area at year’s end, although growth slowed to 1.8 percent in the second half of 2011, it said. Greece, Poland and Chile showed the highest growth, it said. DSL is still the predominant platform, but it’s losing ground to cable and fiber-to-the-home subscriptions, it said. Wireless broadband subscriptions grew by 13 percent in the last six months, with Korea and Sweden still in the lead, it said. The global number of wireless broadband subscriptions in OECD countries is 667 million, up from 590 million in June 2011, it said.