JupiterResearch Forecasts 70% of US Households to Have Broadband By 2012
Tuesday, 29 May 2007
JupiterResearch, a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on business, predicts that 70 percent of US homes – some 86 million households – will have broadband Internet access by 2012. Outlined in the recently-released report, “US Broadband Forecast, 2007 to 2012: LECs Maintain Advantage over Cable Operators in Quest for New Subscribers”, JupiterResearch finds that wider availability of high-speed service will prompt nearly 36 million new broadband subscribers over the next five years.
“Price reductions are responsible for driving take-rates for DSL services offered by the incumbent local exchange carriers, while higher broadband transmission rates and attractive bundles are driving consumer adoption of cable modem service,” said Doug Williams, analyst at JupiterResearch. “As broadband becomes more attractive to consumers from an economic perspective, current dial-up users will be more likely to migrate to broadband service, and consumers who are new to the online population will never take dial-up service in the first place.”
JupiterResearch forecasts the number of dial-up Internet households – currently about 33 million – will drop by over two-thirds by 2012, but that the market for dial-up service will not disappear completely. However, as Web content increasingly incorporates high-bandwidth applications such as video, the value of dial-up access will become increasingly marginalized.
"Despite moderating growth for broadband services, significant market opportunities for broadband service providers still exist,” said David Schatsky, president of JupiterResearch. “Cable operators and local exchange carriers will remain the key market participants, while alternative broadband service providers will continue to struggle to integrate into the mass market.”
The complete findings of this report are immediately available to JupiterResearch clients online at www.jupiterresearch.com. For details on JupiterResearch's methodology, visit www.jupiterresearch.com/bin/item.pl/methodology or email press@jupiterresearch.com to request a detailed methodology statement. For additional information on this report or JupiterResearch's Broadband research service, visit www.jupiterresearch.com or contact Kieran Kelly, SVP of Global Sales and Client Service, at 1-800-481-1212 or researchsales@jupiterresearch.com.