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Broadband growth in the UK |
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| By mid-2007 there were 14.5 million broadband lines in the UK. Almost 13 million of these were serving private homes and the remaining 1.5 million were business lines. |
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| The split between DSL lines and cable modems was roughly 11.3 million to 3.2 million with only an estimated 35,000 using other technologies. This was almost 25% growth in broadband compared with a year earlier but it was a sharp decline from the 44% growth for the previous year. |
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| The absolute numbers of broadband lines added each half year is also falling, from 1.9 million in the first half of 2005 to under 1.4 million in the same period in 2007. |
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| One major reason for slowing broadband growth in the UK is the low rate of growth in the number of homes with internet access. Although broadband households increased by almost 6 million in the two years to mid-2007, the number of households with internet access increased by only 2 million. Most broadband growth went to replacing dial-up connections, which fell by almost 4 million in the same period. |
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| After years of lagging behind, the UK now compares well with other major countries in terms of broadband take-up per head of population. With 24.3 lines per 100 population at mid-2007 it has higher take-up than any other country of similar or larger size – although France is not far behind on 23.6. |
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| The UK is also ahead of Germany, Japan and the USA, which are all around 21.3, but behind Canada on 25.2. |
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Reproduced from the 'UK Broadband Overview' with the kind permission of Point Topic
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Broadband Statistics 
