Broadband Market Forecasts

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Broadband Market in Europe

Current number of installed base lines : 92 million.

By 2011, Radicati group estimates [pdf] that:

Number of installed base lines: 118 million

Market revenue: €34.6 billion

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New Study Provides Internet User Forecasts to 2010 and 2015 for 16 African Countries

Research and Markets has announced the addition of 2007 African - Broadband and Internet Markets in 34 African countries to their offering. The new study includes Internet user forecasts to 2010 and 2015 for 16 African countries.

Highlights from the report [226 pages, pdf, EUR] include:

• Broadband is rapidly replacing dial-up Internet access;
  
• Commercial DSL services are now available in at least 30 African countries;
  
• Mobile network operators are pushing into the ISP space;
  
• Wireless and mobile broadband is set to overtake ADSL;
  
• Several new submarine fibre projects currently under development will improve the supply of international bandwidth at drastically reduced prices;
  
• WiMAX trials, rollouts or commercial services in at least 20 African countries;
  
• The number of African countries where VoIP can be regarded as open to private operators has more than doubled to around 20 in 2007.

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