One Billion Broadband Users Forecast for 2008

BOSTON, December 19: According to research firm Strategy
Analytics, there will be more than 1 billion broadband users worldwide by the
end of 2008, led by the Asia Pacific.

“The upcoming year will mark an important milestone in
broadband adoption,” says Ben Piper, the director of the Strategy Analytics
Broadband Networks Strategies Service. “Our current models suggest that we will
exceed the 1 billion discrete user threshold by the fourth quarter of 2008.”

The Asia-Pacific region will lead the world in terms of
total users. Subscription growth in the Asia-Pacific market is anticipated to
be 27 percent in 2008. In total, emerging markets will account for more than 60
percent of total broadband users.

Strategy Analytics estimates that at the end of this year,
there will be 865.2 million broadband users worldwide. By fourth quarter 2008,
this is expected to rise to 1.01 billion.

—By Mansha Daswani