650 Million Broadband Households By 2013 Leaving only roughly 6 billion Earth residents left to go... According to a new study by Parks Associates, the number of households worldwide with broadband will approach 650 million by 2013. The number of broadband households worldwide grew by over 18% in 2008 to exceed 400 million. According to the stat farm, Asia-Pacific is the largest market with 160 million subscribers, the region having over 49% of the global market share by 2013. For an important sense of context and scale, the Earth's total population is estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau to be somewhere around 6.77 billion.
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 | | These numbers are a little messed... If there are 6.77 billion people on earth, I would imagine they don't all live in individual homes... 650million homes with broadband, at roughly 4 people per home would be about 2.6 billion people.. no?
I don't know what the rough number of people per household is, but maybe I'm reading this wrong? Did they already take that into account? Meaning, if you had one subscription to a house, but 4 people live there, are they counting that as 1, or as 4? | |
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We really need to find another planet | |
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| Re: 650 Million Broadband Users By 2013 said by Mr Matt:  In the US we can be sure our Broadband Users will get poor service for inflated prices, that is limited by Caps and huge overcharges if exceeded. That is if they can get service at all. Not from me they wont. -- I'll keep my God, my freedom, my guns, and my money. You can keep "THE CHANGE." | |
|  |  iansltx join:2007-02-19 Golden, CO kudos:2 | Hey, at least you aren't in South Africa. Their caps make out mobile broadband look generous. | |
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 Nuts65 join:2006-04-27 Forest, OH | It's OK... They'll all be rural residents that don't matter. | |
|  |  iansltx join:2007-02-19 Golden, CO kudos:2 | Re: It's OK... Uh, where do you think companies are deploying broadband right now? Cities are higher-density and last I checked they all have some sort of broadband.
Last I checked they couldn't grow enough food to feed everyone in the world in the city. | |
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