ITU’s SPU newslog: Canadians are among the world’s leaders in broadband use.

Nearly half (49%) of all regular home Internet use households had a high-speed Internet connection in 2001. For the private sector, 2002 marked the first year in which the majority (58%) of enterprises using the Internet connected using broadband technologies.

Absolute percentage of broadband connected households being 23% and the percentage of broadband subscribers per inhabitant is 10.3%, close enough to the ITU Birth of Broadband figure of 11.2%.

Maybe StatCan excluded poor souls like me who connect through a cable modem at below single-ISDN speed and who’s DHCP lease mysteriously expire every few hours forcing a manual renewal? Yes yes, I’m bitter, especially because it is hard to complain about inadequate connections when you bust your monthly transfer quotas…

I didn’t find the Connectedness series when I was looking for it the other day. Good thing the article provides a handy link to the PDF.