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Not exactly operationally relevent, but interesting nonetheless. - ferg >From a Reuters newswire article appearing in CNN/Money: http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/08/news/international/broadband.reut/index.htm [snip] More Europeans than Americans had a broadband Internet connection in the first quarter, according to a survey published Wednesday, which also showed South Korea is on the verge of losing its global pole position. The Asia Pacific region, where most of the world's population live, remained the world's biggest broadband market with 61 million subscribers and a 39 percent share of the global broadband market, Anglo-Dutch research group TelecomPaper said. Europe was second with 47.95 million fast Internet subscribers, overtaking the Americas 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 said in a note. [snip] -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [email protected] or [email protected] ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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