PARIS – The number of broadcast subscribers in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) topped 283 million at December 2009, an increase of 48 million subscribers from its 2007 data. The report now includes Chile as a member of the OECD.
According to the report, Canada ranked 8th out of the 31 countries with 9.98 million broadband subscribers. The United States was first with 81.15 million, followed by Japan and Germany with 31.63 million and 24.84 million, respectively.
The average penetration rate across the OECD has grown to 23.3 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, up from 22.8 in June 2009. In Canada, broadband penetration per 100 inhabitants increased by 2.32 subscriptions from December 2008 figures.
Fibre continues its growth relative to other broadband technologies, accounting for half of all broadband connections in Japan (54%) and Korea (49%). Other leading countries include the Slovak Republic (28%) and Sweden (23%).
DSL is still the dominant technology in the OECD, accounting for 60% of all lines. Cable makes up 29% and fibre based connections have grown to 11% of all lines.
The OECD data on satellite and terrestrial fixed wireless connections have been removed from this report and will now be reported as a separate wireless broadband indicator scheduled for release later this month.
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