The growth in broadband connections is helping to raise the profile of home networking in Western Europe as well as North America and Asia Pacific, according to a new report from In-Stat/MDR.
“In Western Europe, the very populous countries of Germany and the UK are demonstrating a healthy uptake in residential broadband,” said Gemma Paulo, a senior analyst with In-Stat/MDR.
“Some of the less populous countries, especially in northern Europe and Scandinavia, though, have adopted home broadband at much higher rates. Naturally, a growing segment of these home broadband users desire to share this internet access, via a home network, among multiple users.”
In-Stat/MDR estimates that there will be over 15 milllion home networks in Western Europe by the end of 2007.