Broadband subscribers grow 8.6% to 643.77 million in 2012

News Broadband Global 16 APR 2013
Broadband subscribers grow 8.6% to 643.77 million in 2012

The global number of broadband subscribers rose by 50 million in 2012 to reach a total of 643.77 million by the end of December, according to Point Topic data released by the Broadband Forum. The 8.6 percent annual growth was driven by the surge in superfast broadband, with fibre, particularly FTTx/VDSL2 hybrid deployments playing a key role. FTTx (including VDSL and VDSLS2) users grew by 27.5 percent to reach 114.44 million at the end of the year, DSL (including ADSL, ADSL2+ and SDSL) subscribers grew by 3.6 percent to 353.99 million, cable modem users increased by 7.2 percent to 115.23 million and FTTH customers rose by 20.3 percent to 16.04 million.

FTTx is gaining ground on other technologies, including traditional DSL, which still has 56.95 percent of the market, followed by cable modem with 19.19 percent and FTTx with 17.78 percent. The proportion of broadband users taking IPTV service grew to 11.8 percent at the end of 2012 from 10.4 percent a year earlier.

Chinese broadband subscribers rose by 15.11 percent last year to reach 178.25 million at the end of December. The second-biggest country for broadband, the US, experienced 3.89 percent growth to 95.2 million, followed by Japan up 1.29 percent to 37.17 million, Germany up 4.25 percent to 29.83 million and France up 3.9 percent to 23.04 million. Brazil had the fastest annual growth, at 17.96 percent, taking its total to 19.48 million. China placed second for growth, followed by India up 14.1 percent to 15.14 million and Russia up 12.81 percent to 22.99 million.

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