Usage Statistics

Broadband Usage Statistics: The Need For Speed

In order to arrive at the right broadband usage statistics, experts gather information from categories like data transfer speed, number of hours used and so on.

The Organizations for economic co-operation and development recently studied that Iceland and Korea reveals the largest statistic rate in broadband usage which is in the top most position with 26.7% and Korea leads the second top position with 25.45%. The latest broadband usage statistics survey in Iceland reports that it replaces the previous leader of Korea. But, this is a temporary replacement because Korea is currently planning to enter the next pace in the development of broadband Internet. Among the survey reports and the statistics of all the countries, there exists a 3.3 % loss of DSL subscriptions and 1.5 % loss in broadband internet subscription cables.

A statistic in Korea states that after switched over to the fiber-optic broadband usage, there was nearly 6 to 7% increase in internet users subscribing to broadband usage. This increase in broadband usage is not only in Korea but also increased in Iceland, Norway and Australia. Survey statistics in U.S reported that, the number of broadband users touches nearly 50 million. But, it seems to be little less compared to the population in U.S. The main fact is that, the adoption rates are lower and also it is a large country with so many rural areas. There exists a statistic which reveals that widespread broadband usage is possible with advanced satellite technology in countries like Norway and Sweden.

Some Broadband usage statistics further reveal that most of the subscribers are not getting great quality, because of the breaking out of the numbers for 128 kbps to 256 kbps range. The Global standard for internet audience measurement and analysis states that 13% of people in America are connecting via broadband. Another American broadband usage statistic showed that people using broadband in home increases to 48% year after year, where as narrow band subscribers decreases 12% during 2005. In U.S, these broadband usage statistics revealed that the narrowband prevails over the broadband users with 69 million users.

The growth rate of broadband usage according to the U.S statistics are : Broadband change percentage - 49.2% where as Narrowband change percentage - 12%. During last year, statistics projected U.S Broadband usage (at home) as 48 millions and increasing by 7%.

The broadband usage statistics in UK region is measured by how widely the broadband is used through put the country. Broadband usage statistics in the UK monitors the growth of broadband services in rural regions which are ought to be wireless technology rather than wired technology.

World broadband usage statistics:

Africa has a population of nearly 14.3% and the latest statistics of broadband users are 3.2%. Broadband statistics showed a usage growth from 2000 to 2007 is nearly 643%. Europe's statistics reveal that nearly 39% of the people use broadband. This constitutes around 28% of usage in the whole world.

Broadband usage statistics in Asian countries show that nearly 36% of people use broadband services here. In North America, nearly 69% of the Americans using broadband and the usage growth statistics is around 115% since the last year! The total usage around the world covers nearly 100.0% usage of broadband and the total usage growth is estimated to be about 219%.