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Cable companies are now rolling out technology that offers 50 mbps to 48.6 million U.S. households
Cable companies are now rolling out technology that offers 50 mbps to 48.6 million U.S. households, according to a January research report by SNL Kagan.
In 2008…fiber to the home had the biggest jump at 56%
According to the FCC, DSL connections were up 3% in 2008 to 30 million, while fiber to the home had the biggest jump at 56%.
Fixed-service high-speed Internet access connections were up 10% in 2008
According to the FCC, fixed-service high-speed Internet access connections (by the high speed definition of 768 Kbps downstream and more than 200 upstream) were up 10% in 2008 to 77 million, but that was down from the 17% increase the year before.
The United States spends about 2 percent of GDP per year on infrastructure investment
(this includes federal, state and local, and private sector spending) compared to about 5 percent in Europe and 9 percent in China.
The FCC has found that broadband is available in 100 percent of zip codes in the United States, service remains relatively scarce in those zip codes with very low population densities.
Analysts expect that wired broadband internet access availability will plateau and reach about 95% of homes in the United States by 2015 while more than 69% of households will subscribe by 2015.
An OC-3 line is capable of transmitting 155 mbps while an OC-48 can transmit 2.48 gbps.
Most cable broadband systems are currently capable of providing download speeds of at least 10 mbps.
There were approximately 14.9 million U.S. homes passed by fiber in March 2009.
Blistering wireless data growth means that it must be now measured in petabytes, with each unit representing a quadrillion bytes or about 100 times all the text contained in the 650 miles of bookshelves in the Library of Congress.