The analyst company Point Topic has revised its estimates regarding the worldwide broadband growth over the next few years.

The company has increased the end of the year figures from 493 million to 496 million, and the five years prediction from 683 million to 695 million. These figures only consider the fixed line broadband connections and do not take into account other forms of broadband such as mobile broadband.

Explaining the move, the chief analyst of Point Topic, Tim Johnson said that the steady growth rate of broadband in developing countries, even in the face of severe recession, forced them to change their decisions and revise the figures.

The company apparently takes a sample of the non-broadband homes that get broadband connections in given time period, and then uses these samples for detecting the trend in broadband growth. The original predictions made by the company were intentionally scaled down a few months back to take the impact of recession into account. The latest adjustments come after the company realized that the recession was not damaging the global broadband demand as significantly as previously thought.

The company also says that Denmark is all set to be left behind by Norway in terms of broadband uptake, by the year 2012.

Mr. Johnson pointed out that there are countries that are in fact facing a problem in the broadband area due to recession. He said that although countries like Denmark, Finland Taiwan and Sweden already have a high uptake and so broadband growth there is naturally lower, countries like the UK and Spain are seeing a genuine impact of recession on their broadband industries. Take a look at http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/ for more info the broadband UK market.

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