Belgium and France have identical household adoption rates of 98%.

Household adoption in Austria in 2007 was 46.1%, a few points higher than the 42.9% adoption rate in France.

Australia, New Zealand and Spain have household adoption rates for fixed telephone service at 97%.

The households adoption rate in Greece in 2007 was a meager 7.5%.  Household adoption in Poland, the Czech Republic, and the Slovak Republic was four times that rate (29%, 28.1%, and 26.5%. respectively). The Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development or OECD’s per capita rankings, however, place Greece above all three countries!

According to Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development (OECD) data, the household adoption rate in Canada was 64.2% in 2007, which is slightly above that of Switzerland at 63% in the same year.

The Netherlands ranks in first place in the per-capita rankings, even though the household adoption rate in that country is only 73.8%.

According to the Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development (OECD) data, Korea has (by far) the highest household adoption rate of OECD countries at 94.1% in 2007. That is, 94.1% of Korean households have broadband in the home.

Surveys have found, however, that a small minority of Internet users – 5 percent to 20 percent – account for most of the sharply-rising demand for bandwidth.

The concerns are amplified by the certain prospects that broadband providers will have to increase their planned investments in the Internet infrastructure by an estimated $300 billion to $350 billion over the next 20 years, to accommodate very fast-rising demands for bandwidth arising from the expanding use of bandwidth-intensive video and voice applications.

The first flexible-pricing scenario uses survey findings that a small share of all broadband users – from 5 percent to 20 percent – account for most of the increases in bandwidth demand.