Broadband Economics

The just released ITU statistics show global broadband penetration per 100 inhabitants at the start of this calendar year 2006. Iceland has taken over as this year's leader from Korea with Netherlands, Denmark and Hong Kong, China occupying the top five. I just notice based on my empirical evidence that broadband infrastructure has not created the much anticiapted support industry as much as was expected (except in Korea & Japan) - just a thought only, certainly not to say that broadband penetration is not beneficial to society. I would love to see HongKong & China data reported separately.