Broadband @ 75% of U.S Homes.

Three quarters of U.S. households will have high-speed Internet access available to them by year-end 2001, up from the 60%of homes passed by cable modem or DSL service providers at the end of 2000. Cable modem service will continue to be more broadly available, with cable reaching 66% of U.S. homes by year-end 2001, compared to 45% of U.S. homes with DSL available, according to the Yankee Group’s recently published Report “Residential Broadband: Provisioning Cable Modem Service.”

“Building out the network to make broadband available is only half the battle,” notes Michael Goodman, a senior analyst with the Yankee Group’s Media & Entertainment Strategies research and consulting practice. “Success will increasingly be driven by the network operators’ ability to lower the cost of hooking up individual households for broadband service.”