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Met Nederland als koploper met het gebruik van breedband internet in Europa zijn wij in Belgie volgens het Nieuwsblad ook op de goede weg.
Het
aantal Belgische gezinnen met een breedbandaansluiting zal eind volgend
jaar boven de 3 miljoen uitkomen. Dat zijn verwachtingen van het Het
Amerikaanse onderzoeksbureau Forrester Research. Dit jaar sluiten ze af
met zo’n 2,49 miljoen breedbandgezinnen.
Via Forrester: Western European Residential Broadband Forecast: 2008 To 2013
There
is still huge potential for growth in Western European residential
broadband adoption, despite a slowdown in the majority of national
markets. Forrester sees 44% household penetration at the end of 2007
and forecasts a rise to 71% by the end of 2013.
By then,
any remaining dial-up services will be marginalized — 98% of online
access will be via broadband. New access technologies, including WiMAX
and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), will become more prominent, growing from
2% of all broadband households in 2008 to 8% in 2013.
However,
contentious business cases that undermine the existing industry hype
around them will limit their adoption unless governments intervene. Our
forecast reveals that European ISPs will sign up 48 million Net
connections between 2008 and 2013, but sobering churn figures will
offset that opportunity. As the pace of adoption varies across
countries, the level of churn in Western Europe will grow from 23% in
2008 to 26% by 2013, increasing retention costs for ISPs.