You are correct, the IDC statistics might give a better picture if they reflected broadband adoption for households to include families who may be sharing a connection as well as broadband on mobile devices using my nephew as an example -- he is on Facebook 24/7 using his mobile these days, and I am not sure at what speeds.  Is there a standard definition of "broadband penetration" in the industry? 

Lucy 

From: Francis Hook <francis.hook@gmail.com>
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1 - IDC measures broadband connections as those with a speed of at least 256kbps (ideally it should be 512kbps).

2 - In Kenya, total broadband penetration (excluding mobile broadband which we presently do not count - but will from 2011) as of end 2009 stood at 0.15%.   A really large chunk of this comprises business BB connections.

3 - Presently Mobile BB may not really ramp up the figures (at least not more than a quarter of a percentage point i.e. 0.25% ) much since;

a) the devices (USB Modems/Smartphones) that allow speeds of >256kbps are not that many (and we will soon be tracking these as well), 

b) The present coverage of 3G also distorts the true measure of MOBILE broadband

Rgds

Francis

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