Market
research firm Data-quest reports that there will
be more than 28 million residential U.S. subscribers
to high-speed Net access by 2004, and some 14 million
of them will use wire-line cable modems. The number
of residential U.S. cable modem subscribers for
the year 2000 was just over 3.3 million.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 14, 2001 (Newsbytes via COMTEX)
-- U.S. cable TV companies connected 920,000 new
subscribers for high-speed Internet services in
the second quarter of this year, according to the
industry's trade associations.
A June report from IDC said that, while cable-modem
use may increase dramatically worldwide through
2005, its share of all broadband services will drop
as competing technologies, such as digital subscriber
line (DSL) from telephone companies, increase in
popularity.
IDC said that there were 7.2 million cable modem
customers worldwide last year, with more than half
of them in the U.S. The Framingham, Mass., research
company said that number will likely swell to 57.5
million by 2005.
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$40-$50
a month
$200-$300 installation cost |
Pros:
Always on; no distance limitations; higher
availability; increasing availability of retail
modems and equipment
Cons:
Shared bandwidth (more subscribers in your
neighborhood means lower bandwidth); security
issues
Estimated
subscribers in 2000:
3.4
million
Projected
subscribers in 2004:
13.7
million |
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