Internet access has topped the billion mark, with a record number of households having access to the web. Out of that one billion, 845 million are regular users, going online at least once a month, and 250 million have broadband access.
Worldwide Online Access , the report by eMarketer, tracks the spread of internet access and use across the globe, comparing figures for 2004 and 2005, and making forecasts for future use.
Top of the tables comes the US, with 175 million regular users and 43.7 million households now hooked up to broadband. By 2010, 90% of US households are expected to be broadband-enabled.
But the States’ supremacy could soon be challenged as other regions start to participate more fully in the internet boom.
Nearly 40% of the world’s broadband households live in the Asia-Pacific region. Latin America’s broadband subscribers increased by over 70%. And here in Europe, broadband households number over 55 million with 233 million of us regularly using the internet.
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