China to Top U.S. in Broadband Subscribers

An anonymous reader writes "China already is rapidly approaching the United States as the country with the largest number of broadband subscribers, according to the El Segundo, Calif.-based firm, and by the end of the year, China is expected to have 34 million subscribers, compared to 39 million in the United States. By the end of 2007, China is expected to have 57 million broadband subscribers, compared to 54 million in the United States, with an even wider lead in the years to follow."

Re:Dialup

[red5]

I had to help my sister figure out some computer related things at work this morning. They had AOL dial-up internet. I didn't even know they made that anymore.

Great firewall

[mrogers]

Now they can fail to find information about democracy, Falun Gong, Christianity or encryption software at blazing 2 megabit speeds! Hooray for broadband!

Further Developments

[Capella or Bust]

In other news, reports indicate that the China has far surpassed the US in terms of the number of households that contain "lungs." These "lungs" are being used by the Chinese to breathe "air," and it is widely fear that the Chinese may very well breath more "air" than any other civilized nation on earth, followed closely by India.

Re:Mmmmm....

[mrogers]

Nah, I hear they have a great firewall.

Re:Even Canada is higher..

[Wicked187]

...even our eskimos have a fat pipe!

I am not sure that is what they are speaking of.

Re:1.1 Billion vs 280 Million

[SaDan]

Yeah, but they'll NEVER beat us at BUTTER consumption!

Re:i would hope so

[Anonymous Coward]

Those bastards are taking all of our IP addresses!

Re:Breed Geeks, breed!

[Vombatus]

Geeks do your partiotic duty.

Go forth and multiply?

Where did I leave my pocket calculator?

Yeah!

[TheRealStubot]

And that was with ONE Linksys wireless router, strategically placed in Bejing.

Re:i would hope so

[Waffle Iron]

and I'll bet the only address they're allowed to connect to with FTP is 127.0.0.1

That's not so bad; it's a kickass site. Lightning fast, too.

General consumption...

[zxflash]

America is pretty good at consuming goods/services but with the population advantage China has theye's no doubt they'll have more broadband, doctors, sell more Big Macs, and have bigger political problems...

Re:i would hope so

[Lord Kano]

That's not so bad; it's a kickass site. Lightning fast, too.

And whoever runs it likes all of the same pr0n that I do.

LK

Re:i would hope so

[Marcion]

I bet they will exceed US broadband connections but the vast majority of Spam will still come from Americans albeit often and increasingly re-routed through Russia, Eastern Europe, Nigeria etc. States like the US, and their unregulated allies, constitute an axis of spam, emailing to threaten the inboxes of the world. By seeking people to buy viagra and sign of for credit cards, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.

Re:fucking retart(sic)!

[bcattwoo]

fucking retart!

Oh, the irony...

Re:firewall?

[doctorjay]

OOO GREAT FIREWALL OF CHINA