Study: DSL Continues to Outpace Cable

[Chris]

DSL penetration continues to increase and close to half of all broadband users use the technology in the United States, the DSL Forum said Tuesday. From June 2005 to June 2006, 46 million new DSL subscribers were added worldwide, and in eight countries 25 percent or more of the landlines were used to deliver high-speed Internet.

The technology continues to be extremely popular in Europe, where cable television is less prevalent, with 56 million subscribers or over one third of the global total. The region added 18 million subscribers in the 12 months ending June 2006, the study said.

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[CurlyWhirly]

It would do as only around 50% of the UK population can get cable services compared to BT's 99.6% threshold.

I have looked at a map of NTL and Telewest's UK coverage and I am only around 12 miles away from it but it may as well be 12" as they have no plans to rollout further UK coverage as it is unviable at the moment and the 2 cable companies are still in debt according to various reports.

My only hope of faster DSL speeds is ADSL2+ which BT are going to launch in 2008 after they upgrade their current network to their vision of the 21CN (21st Century Network)

OFCOM are the ones to blame for not allowing BT to roll out FTTC and FTTH because they are a monopoly operator and would therefore have too much of an advantage over everyone else (according to OFCOM)

To be honest, I'm surprised that cable take-up hasn't been higher, even with only aprox 50% of the UK population been able to get it.

If you add up the total subscribers for both NTL and Telewest then it only just about beats BT's Retail broadband service subscription levels: http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.shtml