Highlights
Internet Access Services:
Status as of June 30, 2013
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Between June 2003 and June 2013, total (business and residential) reportable fixed-location
connections grew from 23 million connections to 94 million connections – at a compound annual
growth rate of 15% per year.
- Over the same ten-year period, residential fixed-location connections grew from 21 million connections to 86 million connections – also at a compound annual growth rate of 15% per year.
- Between June 2003 and June 2013, household adoption increased from 18 connections per 100 households to 69 connections per 100 households.
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Residential fixed-location Internet access connections over 200 kbps in at least one direction
increased by 4% between June 2012 and June 2013, to 86 million.
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Reported residential mobile wireless service subscribers with mobile devices and data plans for
full Internet access increased by 24%, to 142 million, between June 2012 and June 2013.
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The reported data show a 30% annual increase in the number of residential fixed-location
connections that are at least 6 Mbps downstream and 1.5 Mbps upstream (from 34.5 million in
June 2012 to 45 million in June 2013) and a 31% annual increase in the number of connections
that are at least 10 Mbps downstream and 1.5 Mbps upstream (from 34.1 million in June 2012 to
44.8 million in June 2013).
• As a national average in June 2013, there were 54 residential fixed-location connections per 100 households for connections with speeds that were reported to be at least 3 Mbps downstream and 768 kbps upstream.