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URLwire
for Monday, April 26, 2004
Canada's broadband lead over the
US shrank by 9.2%. While US broadband penetration grew by 12.2% over the
past year, Canadian broadband penetration grew by just 3% from 64% to 67%
over the same time period. The charts below, derived from Nielsen//NetRatings
and Ipsos-Reid data, show trends in connection speeds to the Internet for
users in the United States and Canada.
As of March 2004, most users in the US connect to the Internet using dial-up modems of 56Kbps or less. 44.42% use 56Kbps modems, 6.88% use 28/33.3Kbps, and 2.73% use 14.4Kbps modems. In total. 54.03% of home users in the US connect to the Internet at 56Kbps or less. Broadband Growth in the US Broadband penetration in the US increased by 0.82% in March. As of March 2004 broadband penetration was at 45.97%, up from 45.15% in February. This is higher than the average increase in broadband of 0.76% per month from October 1999 to February 2004. Extrapolating the data provided by Nielsen//NetRatings, broadband share in the US should exceed 50% by July of 2004. Work Connectivity Most workers in the US enjoy high-speed connections to the Internet. Most use a high-speed line such as a T1 connection, and share bandwidth between computers connected to an Ethernet network. The speed of each connection decreases as more employees hook up to the LAN. As of March of 2004, of those connected to the Internet, 78.8% of US users at work enjoy a high-speed connection, up from 77.2% in February. 21.2% connect from work at 56Kbps or less. US Narrows Broadband Gap with Canada Over the past year, the US has narrowed the "broadband gap" with Canada by 9.2%. Since March 2003, US broadband penetration has grown by 12.2% from 33.8% to 46%, while Canadian broadband penetration has grown just 3%, from 64% to 67%. Canadian broadband penetration may be reaching a saturation point like Korea did when it reached 70% broadband penetration. Figure 4 compares the growth of broadband for US and Canadian home users. Broadband Households as Percent of Internet Households By Country 2000 2001 2002
2003 2004
Further Reading Canadian
Broadband Continues Record Growth - US Broadband Penetration Slows - April
2003 Bandwidth Report As of March 2003, 64% of Canadian home users
enjoyed a broadband connection.
*Note that Nielsen//NetRatings reports
the percentage of active Internet users that use broadband from home, not
broadband households. NetRatings uses a panel of 40,000 to 50,000 people
with software meters installed on their computers. These meters detect
connection speeds. Each month they do an enumeration study to call a number
of people to calibrate the panel by adjusting weightings to match the population
at large.
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