THE
OECD has found that mobile broadband subscriptions have reached nearly 700
million in OECD countries. Switzerland and Korea continue to top the OECD
ranking for fixed and wireless broadband.
Mobile broadband has
experienced healthy growth (18%) in the last twelve months, largely driven by
continuing strong demand for tablets and smartphones. The average penetration in
the OECD area is 56.6 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, for a total number of
nearly 700 million subscriptions (698.6 million). Korea (104.2) and Sweden
(101.8) top the table, being the only two countries with more wireless broadband
subscriptions than inhabitants.
Fixed
wired broadband subscriptions reached 321 million in the OECD area in June 2012,
for an average penetration of 26 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, a 1.7%
increase over the previous six months. New Zealand and Chile (+5%) experienced
the highest growth, whereas Poland’s (-2%) and Iceland’s (-0.6%) penetration
slightly decreased.
DSL subscriptions are being slowly replaced by
fibre. The share of fibre subscriptions in fixed broadband has increased to
14.2%, while DSL represented 54.7% of the total fixed wired broadband
subscription. By the end of 2009, fibre subscriptions only accounted for 11.2%
of total fixed broadband. Cable (30.4%) accounted for most of the remaining
subscriptions.
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