By Ben King, 16 March 2001 17:00
NEWS With only 30,000 DSL subscribers by the end of 2000, Britain is in ninth place in the race to become a fully broadband economy. With approximately 400,000 DSL subscribers already connected, Germany is in pole position, with the next largest DSL market, France, a long way behind, according to a study conducted by Dutch research house Van Dusseldorp and Partners, in association with Screen Digest. France only has 60,000 DSL subscribers, but makes up some of the distance with its very high cable population, of 120,000 compared to Germany's 1,000. The report also predicts that broadband penetration will reach 21 per cent by 2003, but the funding crunch currently being experienced by many telcos suggests this may be optimistically fast. Cable & Wireless, for example, has recently announced that is planning to cut global spending by 25 per cent, and cancel plans to build a fibre optic network in Japan, according to James Enck, an analyst at Daiwa, quoted in the Telegraph.
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