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DATA MINE
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Nov. 18, 1999
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How Wired Are Our Homes?
Millions of homes in the developed world should soon be receiving high-speed data, whether through TV cables, enhanced phone lines, or wireless systems. What to do with all those megabits? Tech visionaries point to a networked home with hosts of ordinary appliances, from heaters to dishwashers, linked up wirelessly. That future may be coming soon. Strategy Analytics forecasts that...
| In the U.S. by 2005: |
| 19% of all homes will have wireless networks |
| 77 million wireless devices will be connected |
| 19% of all homes will have broadband Internet access |
| 48% of homes will have two or more PCs |
Meanwhile, in Europe, which is ahead
in wireless communication but behind in PCs: |
| 15% of households will have wireless networks |
| 88 million wireless devices will be connected |
| 9% of homes will have broadband Internet access |
| 36% will have multiple PCs |
| DATA: Strategy Analytics, Newton, Mass., and Luton, U.K.
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