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Infrastructure, fixed: Broadband access in OECD countries per 100 inhabitants in 2001-2005

Country	Year
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	of which			2005 Subscriptions total
						DSL	Cable modem	Other
	per 100 inhabitants
Australia	0.8	1.8	3.5	7.7	13.8	10.8	2.6	0.4	2,785,000
Austria	3.6	5.6	7.6	10.2	14.1	8.1	5.8	0.2	1,155,000
Belgium	4.4	8.7	11.7	15.6	18.3	11.3	7.0	0.0	1,902,739
Canada	8.8	12.1	15.1	17.8	21.9	10.1	10.8	0.1	6,706,699
Czech Republic	0.1	0.2	0.5	1.6	6.4	3.0	1.4	2.0	650,000
Denmark	4.4	8.3	13.0	18.8	25.0	15.3	7.2	2.5	1,350,415
Finland	1.3	5.5	9.5	15.0	22.5	19.5	2.8	0.1	1,174,200
France	1.0	2.8	5.9	10.6	15.2	14.3	0.9	0.0	9,465,600
Germany	2.3	4.1	5.6	8.4	13.0	12.6	0.3	0.1	10,706,600
Greece	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.4	1.4	1.4	0.0	0.0	155,418
Hungary	0.3	0.6	2.0	3.6	6.3	4.1	2.1	0.1	639,505
Iceland	3.7	8.4	14.3	18.3	26.7	25.9	0.1	0.6	78,017
Ireland	0.0	0.3	0.8	3.4	6.7	5.0	0.6	1.1	270,700
Italy	0.7	1.7	4.1	8.1	11.9	11.3	0.0	0.6	6,896,696
Japan	2.2	6.1	10.7	15.0	17.6	11.3	2.5	3.8	22,515,091
Korea	17.2	21.8	24.2	24.9	25.4	13.6	8.3	3.4	12,190,711
Luxembourg	0.3	1.5	3.5	9.8	14.9	13.3	1.6	0.0	67,357
Mexico	0.1	0.3	0.4	0.8	2.2	1.5	0.6	0.0	2,304,520
Netherlands	3.8	7.0	11.8	19.0	25.3	15.7	9.6	0.0	4,113,573
New Zealand	0.7	1.6	2.6	4.7	8.1	7.3	0.4	0.4	331,000
Norway	1.9	4.2	8.0	14.9	21.9	17.8	2.9	1.2	1,006,766
Poland	0.1	0.3	0.8	2.1	2.4	1.6	0.7	0.1	897,659
Portugal	1.0	2.5	4.8	8.2	11.5	6.6	4.9	0.0	1,212,034
Slovak Republic	0.0	0.0	0.3	1.1	2.5	2.0	0.4	0.2	133,900
Spain	1.2	3.0	5.4	8.4	11.7	9.2	2.5	0.1	4,994,274
Sweden	5.4	8.1	10.7	14.5	20.3	13.3	3.4	3.6	1,830,000
Switzerland	2.0	5.6	10.1	17.3	23.1	14.7	8.0	0.4	1,725,446
Turkey	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.7	2.1	2.1	0.0	0.0	1,530,000
United Kingdom	0.6	2.3	5.4	10.5	15.9	11.5	4.4	0.0	9,539,900
United States	4.5	6.9	9.7	12.8	16.8	6.5	9.0	1.3	49,391,060
OECD	2.9	4.9	7.3	10.2	13.6	8.4	4.2	1.0	157,719,880

Source: OECD

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