Europe&#39;s Web Surfers Go for Broadband
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Nielsen/NetRatings reported that more than 100 million Europeans use the Internet--and of these, more than 54 million go surfing over a broadband connection.
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The internet is coming up the toilet The idea of laying fibre along sewer lines has been sloshing around the networking business for years. Now a UK firm claims today's broadband will seem a trickle compared to the torrents of data it'll soon offer.â¦
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Britons are signing up for broadband net connections in greater numbers than ever, figures by BT show.
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Europe : Mobile Internet now provides T-Mobile customers with a mobile broadband connection that will give them high speed Internet access wherever they are.
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(InfoWorld) - The take-up rate of broadband Internet access slowed sharply across Europe last year, while in some key markets, former monopoly operators are reclaiming market share lost to rivals in recent years, the European Competitive Telecommunications Association said in a statement Thursday. ECTA believes the two trends are connected. Growth in the number of broadband subscriptions grew 7 percent in the third quarter of last year, compared with 23 percent in the third quarter of 2005, according to the ECTA Broadband Scorecard, a quarterly analysis of the market. Growth almost stalled in a number of countries, including Denmark and Belgium, which experienced justÂ 3 percent growth. France saw growth slow to 10 percent after a much stronger performance in 2005, the analysis found. Spain, Sweden, and Austria also suffered a slow-down, it said. "The Scorecard shows that growth has stalled in a number of countries where we have seen the power of the incumbent on the increase, including Denmark and Belgium, which experienced a paltry 3 percent growth in broadband penetration," said Steen Clausen, managing director of ECTA. France has fallen to eighth place in ECTA's scorecard, well behind the U.K. for the first time, he said. "This is extremely disappointing news from some of the countries that have traditionally been at the forefront of Europe's broadband revolution," Clausen said. "Until recently, France was the poster child for broadband with some of the most attractive triple-play packages in Europe. It now needs to be vigilant if it is to maintain its position," he added. In contrast, in Germany, Deutsche Telekom's market share dropped below 50 percent for the first time in the third quarter of last year, and at the same time, it had a surge in growth in broadband penetration. The U.K. also experienced faster growth in broadband subscriptions. "It seems that the U.K. has learned some of the lessons that propelled France up the league table and is now reaping those rewards with a multitude of offers to consumers. Germany too is starting to show signs of progress, which is very welcome after a slow start," Clausen said. Europe is home to some of the world's leading broadband countries. However, its position in the fast track of broadband take-up globally could be put at risk if regulators do not act to re-enforce competition and open markets, ECTA warned. The link between increased power for incumbents and stagnation has been confirmed by studies, including one from SPC Network, which concluded that Europe could gain an extra 20 million broadband lines by opening markets further to competition. "This is a powerful warning for governments not to protect national champions, either now or for the future," Clausen said. "Monopolies have never been good for consumers, and in some industries, governments have to take action to let competition flourish. In energy, for example, the Commission is proposing extra measures to open markets to competition. We believe this could provide some valuable lessons for telecoms." European Union rankings in the third quarter of the last three years are as follows: Ranking Q3 2004 Q3 2005 Q3 2006 1 Sweden Denmark Denmark 2 Denmark Netherlands Netherlands 3 Netherlands Finland Finland 4 Belgium Sweden Sweden 5 Finland Belgium U.K. 6 France France Luxembourg 7 Austria U.K. Belgium 8 U.K. Luxembourg France 9 Germany Austria Austria 10 Portugal Germany Germany 11 Spain Portugal Portugal 12 Italy Italy Italy 13 Luxembourg Spain Spain 14 Ireland Ireland Ireland 15 Greece Greece Greece The ECTA Broadband Scorecard is available at the association's Web site.
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In the past 12 months, the number of people actively surfing the web from home each month in Europe has grown by 12 per cent to 10m, according to numbers from internet research firm Nielsen NetRatings.
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For Rainer Kinnunen, life has been a bit of a blur since he signed up for a superhigh-speed Internet service three years ago.
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Worldwide use of DSL broadband technology for Internet access rose 38 percent to 164 million users in the 12 months ended June 30, boosted by strong growth in the European Union, an industry trade group said Tuesday.
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Over half of online US households are using broadband to access the internet, according to new research.
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About one-third of Internet users in the U.S. have used a wireless connection to surf the Web or check e-mail, according to a survey released Sunday.
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When Scott Richards is at his home in Portland, Ore., he taps into the Internet using a broadband connection from his office about five miles away.
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The European telecoms industry is  looking for new, higher frequencies to make up for a shortage  of airwaves that can be used to enable consumers to watch  television on the go.
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Millions signed up to broadband this year as high-speed access finally went mass market.
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We&#39;re all used to searching the web at blazing fast speeds: picking out the right webpages among the five billion choices takes only a few hundredths of a second.
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In Europa, il web piace sempre di piÃ¹. Internet rappresenta il 20% del consumo totale di media, piÃ¹ di giornali e riviste. Ã quanto emerge da una ricerca commissionata dalla European Interactive Advertising Association.
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More than 122m Europeans aged 15 and above use the internet each day, says a report.
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Flocking to the Murdoch bosom The BSkyB juggernaut's plough into broadband shows no sign of slowing, with the announcement today that it bagged more than 250,000 new punters in the last three months.â¦