DSL accounted for almost three-quarters of the worldwide growth in broadband this year, according to data released by the DSL Forum at its quarterly meeting in Philadelphia Tuesday. By 30 June 2005, there were 176 million broadband connections in the world with Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) comprising 115 million of those.

In the first six months of 2005, another 24.5 million homes and businesses around the world moved to broadband. With 47.5 million subscribers, the EU is now the world's number one region for broadband, taking over from North America. The USA remains the country with the largest broadband population in the world, at 38.2 million subscribers.

Of the established DSL nations, the fastest growing are Australia at 40%, the UK at 37% and Brazil at 27%, all among the 15 countries with over one million subscribers to broadband DSL.

"Exponential expansion of global subscribers to DSL over the past five years has been matched only by the dynamic development of the technology itself", said Michael Brusca, Chairman of the DSL Forum.

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