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Chinese broadband subscribers triple to 9.4 million
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| Date: | | | Article: | China had 9.4 million broadband subscribers at the end of September, nearly three times as many as a year earlier, state media reported.
The figure compares with 3.4 million broadband users at the end of September 2002, the Xinhua news agency said, citing CCID Consulting Co Ltd, a Beijing-based agency.
Growth was particularly rapid in the third quarter of 2003, when 2.3 million more Chinese started subscribing to broadband services, it said.
According to a forecast from Beijing-based Norson Telecom Consulting, 21 million Chinese will have high-speed Internet access by 2005.
Broadband was available to 62 million subscribers worldwide at the end of 2002, a 72 percent increase year-on-year, according to a report by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union.
The sector is led by China's regional economic competitors, including South Korea (news - web sites), which had more than 10 million broadband subscribers at the end of 2002.
South Korea has about 21 subscribers per 100 inhabitants, while in China, the number is less than one. |
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