Internet access market will reach a value of $ 77 billion worldwide in 2006.

Stuttgart, Germany – 1st July, 2002 - Despite the weak telecom market environment in major parts of the World, the market for Internet access services is continuously increasing: from $30 billion in 2000, to $37 in 2001. For 2006 the market will more than double to an expected value of $77 billion.

As represented in Figure 1, within this market the large band access segment is the key driver while narrow band access revenues will stagnate from 2002 onwards. In 2006 45% of the overall Internet access revenues will be generated from narrow band customers, while 55% by the usage of large band access.

Among the different access technologies, xDSL will become the predominant solution at World level with more than 100 million connections worldwide.

This market outlook, among several others, enriched with historic data can be found in the Teleseeq Yearbook: Global Telecommunications Markets and Forecasts for 2002-2006 published by InfoCom.

The Teleseeq Yearbook provides regional trends, 2001 market shares, global positioning, historic indicators, and forecast of the main global markets. Teleseeq Yearbook is available in two volumes –Service & Equipment- and integrates key information on CATV, wireless, wireline, prepaid & postpaid mobile services and more.

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