We are inching towards the 500 million broadband subscribers mark. The latest report from market research firm Point Topic shows that by the end of the first quarter of 2010, the world had 484.97 million broadband subscribers. That’s an increase from the 469.92 million subscribers that we had recorded at the end of 2009. An [...]

International bandwidth usage has been growing at close to 60% year over year in the past 3 years. This explains the mammoth rise from consumption of close to 1.3 Terabyte per second to now over 30 Tbps. A recent study by TeleGeography looked into the growth in usage pattern over the years worldwide. Here are [...]

This may not be a very recent study. Published in October 2009, the ITIF Broadband rankings study looked into the average broadband speeds and cost in countries with the fastest internet connectivity. The results are interesting. One of the critical take-aways is that the price of broadband is, more often than not, proportional to the [...]

Few months back, a study published by SpeedMatters.org listed down the American states with the highest measured broadband connectivity speed. Now, in a similar report conducted for individual cities, Akamai looks into the average connection speed. Interestingly as pointed out in the study, US cities or towns that host colleges are among the places with [...]

How equipped are the various countries to use their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure to an economic advantage? In its recently published annual study of ‘networked readiness’ the World Economic Forum has ranked the various countries on this parameter. Here are the rankings 1. Sweden 2. Singapore 3. Denmark 4. Switzerland 5. United States [...]

Internet through fiber broadband cables is growing very fast and nearly 84% of the world’s fiber broadband connections from Asia Pacific; predominantly from Japan and South Korea. Here are the current state of broadband connections and how they are expected to grow by 2014 according to a study conducted by ABI research End of 2009 [...]

Europe and East Asia are regions with the highest broadband speed. The state of internet report by Akamai puts the average global internet speed at 1.7 Mbps which has grown 13% year-over-year. Here are the top ten countries with the highest broadband speeds 1. South Korea : 14.6 Mbps 2. Japan : 7.9 Mbps 3. [...]

A recent study commissioned by FCC into the state of internet in USA show that there is a heavy disparity between the rural and urban areas when it comes to internet connectivity. Here are some of the statistics from the study Total number of American households : 117 million Number of households with NO internet [...]

Most of the broadband rankings published are with respect to either the penetration levels (subscriber count) or by speed. However, another important parameter in ranking leading broadband users is by the average amount of content consumed. Accordingly, here are the world leaders ranked by average quantity of content consumer per user per month 1. South [...]

As Om Malik of GigaOm puts it, this past decade from 1999 to 2009 has been the Decade of broadband. The change in internet landscape since then has largely been because of the increase in broadband subscribers. Here is how the numbers grew in the past ten years in US 2000 : 5.0 million 2001 [...]