Re: High Speed Homes

On 5/3/01 at 1:48 PM, Tamara <tamara(at)abbeyink.com> wrote:

> >Which means of course that 88.9 percent of at-home users are still
> >connecting using a analog modem.
> >
> >The chart covered several countries. Below are the Total Broadband
> >for each:
> >
> >Korea           57.3%
> >Hong Kong       8.1%
> >Singapore       7.1%
> >Taiwan          6.2&
> >France          6.0%
> >Denmark         5.8%
> >Germany         5.0%
> >Spain           3.1%
> >United Kingdom  3.1%
> >China           0.4%

> 57-percent?? Was there any theory proffered as to why more than half
> of those Korean connections were broadband?

Also, I had heard that Singapore is almost exclusively broadband and
that they are the most wired country in the world. That appears to
conflict with these stats.

> You know, something that could change things as cable/dsl gets rolling
> -- what about AOL? MSN I think has some limited DSL for their
> subscribers? What about this AOL/Time Warner deal? Would that
> dramatically raise broadband usage?? I know at least one AOL user that
> won't go broadband because it means giving up AOL -- hey, AOL works
> for a certain customer so sometimes it's best to just let it go rather
> than trying to persuade her.

I access AOL via cable modem. One of my clients uses AOL with her DSL
account.

Ken

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