The DSL Forum announced that DSL subscribers increased by 5.2 million in Q2 2003, reaching a total base of 46.7 million worldwide. There were 10.7 million new subscribers overall during the first half of 2003. According to research by Point Topic, seven of the 54 countries that now have commercial broadband DSL services accounted for almost 75% of the world’s subscriber growth: Japan added 2.6 million; China and the USA added in excess of one million each and four European countries added more than half a million new DSL subscribers each.
The DSL Forum has set a target for a global mass market for broadband DSL – 20% of all phone lines – 200 million subscribers by the end of 2005. South Korea remains the only country in the world to have achieved mass market status with 29.7% of its phone lines delivering DSL services using a combination of ADSL and VDSL. A further seven countries have achieved in excess of 10% phone line penetration, four have reached more than 9% and another eight are at greater than 5%.
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