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Dump Broadband? Hah!

Nov 07, 2001 4:18pm CST tags: Nerdy News
It seems the "broad economic slump" that we hear so often is impacting the broadband market a bit. Maybe we'll be seeing a few less LPBs on the servers? According to this report on ZDNet more people are still subscribing than are cancelling their connections, but the cancellation rates have grown.

To be sure, broadband providers insist that cancellation rates are extremely low. New subscriber growth has slowed in recent months, but ISPs, telecom and cable companies say demand is still strong. EarthLink spokesman Kurt Rahn says that high-speed subscribers would "rather sell their grandmothers" than go back to a pokey dial-up connection. With 14 percent of its revenue now coming from broadband, EarthLink is increasingly relying on high-speed Net subscriptions.
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Jupiter Research predicts that 10 million households in the United States will have a high-speed Net connection by the end of this year, up from 5.2 million in 2000. That figure will rise to 35.1 million households by 2006, the company predicts.

I like broadband. It's faster than a modem.

        

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