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    &lt;em&gt;The top ten countries by number of broadband lines are:&lt;/em&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;USA &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;China &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Japan &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Germany&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;South Korea &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;France &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;UK &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Italy &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Canada &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Spain &lt;/li&gt;
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  &lt;p&gt;The largest growth rate was in Eastern Europe, with 14.2% growth in the last quarter of 2006. Russia, Poland and Romania added a combined 2.8m new subscribers in the quarter. &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;The Middle East and Africa region grew its broadband subscriber base by 13.3% in Q4.&#160;It now has a total of 6m broadband users, 2.1% of the world total. &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;Another recent Point Topic broadband survey predicted that &lt;a href="/blog/339-uk-broadband-coverage-will-reach-64-in-next-2-years"&gt;broadband penetration in the UK would reach 64% by the end of 2008&lt;/a&gt;. Recent eMarketer figures put &lt;a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1004706"&gt;UK broadband penetration at 47.1%.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;Quote&gt;The top ten countries by number of broadband lines are:&lt;/Quote&gt;
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    &lt;ListItem&gt;USA &lt;/ListItem&gt;
    &lt;ListItem&gt;China &lt;/ListItem&gt;
    &lt;ListItem&gt;Japan &lt;/ListItem&gt;
    &lt;ListItem&gt;Germany&lt;/ListItem&gt;
    &lt;ListItem&gt;South Korea &lt;/ListItem&gt;
    &lt;ListItem&gt;France &lt;/ListItem&gt;
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    &lt;ListItem&gt;Italy &lt;/ListItem&gt;
    &lt;ListItem&gt;Canada &lt;/ListItem&gt;
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  &lt;Paragraph&gt;The largest growth rate was in Eastern Europe, with 14.2% growth in the last quarter of 2006. Russia, Poland and Romania added a combined 2.8m new subscribers in the quarter. &lt;/Paragraph&gt;
  &lt;Paragraph&gt;The Middle East and Africa region grew its broadband subscriber base by 13.3% in Q4.&#160;It now has a total of 6m broadband users, 2.1% of the world total. &lt;/Paragraph&gt;
  &lt;Paragraph&gt;Another recent Point Topic broadband survey predicted that &lt;Link URL="/blog/339-uk-broadband-coverage-will-reach-64-in-next-2-years" Window="New"&gt;broadband penetration in the UK would reach 64% by the end of 2008&lt;/Link&gt;. Recent eMarketer figures put &lt;Link URL="http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1004706" Window="New"&gt;UK broadband penetration at 47.1%.&lt;/Link&gt;&lt;/Paragraph&gt;
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    &lt;strong&gt;The&#160;number of UK broadband connections reached 13.1m at the end of last year, up from 9.8m at the end of 2005,&#160;according to the latest figures.&lt;/strong&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;a href="http://point-topic.com/contentDownload/dslanalysis/world%20broadband%20statistics%20q4%202006.pdf"&gt;Point Topic's&#160;Q4 survey&lt;/a&gt; puts the&#160;worldwide total of broadband lines&#160;at 281.5m, with 17.7m lines added in the three months. The year on year growth rate was 31.1%, with broadband penetration worldwide reaching 5.4%. &lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;Link URL="http://point-topic.com/contentDownload/dslanalysis/world%20broadband%20statistics%20q4%202006.pdf" Window="New"&gt;Point Topic's&#160;Q4 survey&lt;/Link&gt; puts the&#160;worldwide total of broadband lines&#160;at 281.5m, with 17.7m lines added in the three months. The year on year growth rate was 31.1%, with broadband penetration worldwide reaching 5.4%. &lt;/Paragraph&gt;
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