Broadband penetration to reach 15% worldwide by end of 2005

With 150M users, 15% of Internet users worldwide will be connecting at high speed by the end of 2005. DSL continues dominate the broadband market by a ratio of about 2 to 1. "That disparity is based on the relative ease of converting existing telephone networks into digital subscriber lines in countries that, unlike the U.S., do not have sophisticated cable networks in place."

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Gobal Internet Population to pass the 1B threshold in 2005

This means that about 14 out of every 100 persons use the Internet in the world by the end of the year.

Asia continues to lead in the number of surfers with  32% of the world total. Europe comes next with 28% of the total. Northern America is third with  27% of the total.

Internet growth to date since the year 2000 has been 125.2%, or about 25% per year.

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