Emerging Industry Overview: High Speed Internet Service Providers
Industry Snapshot
The explosion in popularity of the Internet in the closing decade of the twentieth century and the opening years of the new millennium fueled a strong public demand for ever faster connections with the Information Superhighway. This demand continued, as the Internet played a central role in an increasing number of business and personal activities.
Growing even more spectacularly than Internet use in general has been the number of users accessing the World Wide Web via high speed, or broadband, connection. The most common broadband technologies were DSL (digital subscriber...