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High-Speed Data Service Demand Continues Globally: An Analyst’s View

Broadband services remain a key driving force in global productivity and communication. Businesses, governments, and individuals continue to rely upon the quality and dependability of high-speed data and broadband services in order to inform, educate, interact and entertain.

On a worldwide basis, household adoption of fixed-line broadband services continues to increase. At the end of 2015, Parks Associates’ estimates had 739 million global households subscribing to a residential fixed-line broadband service, an increase of more than 40 percent since the end of 2010.

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