Gartner: Broadband will connect 20 percent of households worldwide this year

Research firm Gartner is projecting that 20 percent of households worldwide will be connected to the Internet through a broadband connection by year-end. In all, Gartner projects that 422 million households worldwide will have a fixed broadband connection by the end of this year, an increase of 10.5 percent from the 382 million households that had a fixed broadband connection at the end of 2008.

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