Digital-Lifestyles.info: Europe's Broadband Access Overtakes America's

Digital-Lifestyles.infoEurope's Broadband Access Overtakes America's

A new survey published today reveals that more Europeans than Americans possessed a broadband Internet connection in the first quarter of 2005, with hi-tech South Korea in danger of losing its global pole position. The Asia Pacific region - home to most of the world's population - continues to be the world's biggest broadband market, notching up 61 million subscribers and a 39 percent share of the global broadband market. The research by the Anglo-Dutch research group TelecomPaper placed Europe in second place with 47.95 million broadband subscribers, edging past America with 47.53 million. "Europe has outrun the Americas for the first time in history and became the second largest broadband market in the world," TelecomPaper noted.