14 DAY TRIAL // Cable Internet providers find clients more easily than DSL providers. The number of individual users and that of small enterprises that use high-speed Internet services has increased since last year with almost 34%, amounting to 38 million connections.
Still, although these figures might point out that US holds the record for broadband lines, there are 15 countries with much more broadband connections installed. The Americans motivate this by the fact that those states' governments offer incentives to those who install such connections and that the density of the population in those countries is much higher than the one in US.
Approximately 5.4 million users have installed such broadband connections in the second half of 2004, a report issued by FCC says. The agency has announced that in the first half of the year, other 4.3 million users have given up on their slow Internet connection.
In the same time, DSL type connections have recorded a 45% increase (4.3 million users have switched to this solution in 2004 only, the total number of connections of this type reaching 13.8 million).