Mrs. Gonzalez says much of the growth has come from an unexpected source.
LAURIE ADAMS GONZALEZ: "One of the things that we're really seeing with broadband is that there are markets opening up, especially for emerging and developing countries that they would have never had an audience for."
Asia represents almost forty-one percent of the total broadband subscriptions. More than one hundred twenty million of those subscribers are in China.
The report from the Broadband Forum also looked at Internet Protocol Television, or IPTV. IPTV is one of the main developments leading the growth in broadband.
IPTV uses fast broadband connections to bring television programs into homes. It normally requires a subscription and a special box on top of the television.
The Forum report said IPTV subscriptions had grown to more than thirty-eight million by the end of June. France has the highest number of IPTV subscribers at more than nine million. China and the United States are next, with an average of more than six million subscribers each.
The Broadband Forum will release its latest usage report sometime this month. More growth is expected for both broadband and IPTV.
And that's the VOA Special English Technology Report, written by June Simms. I'm Steve Ember.
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