Broadband users in the region, including Japan, are predicted to have increased ten-fold to 7.6 million in the year 2000.
The growth in the region was largely due to the surge in demand in Korea, where more than 3 million users signed up for broadband services, according to Andrew Chetham, regional ISP analyst for Gartner Dataquest.
"The lesson from Korea is that once the basic infrastructure is in place and competition drives down prices, dial-up users switch to broadband in droves," he said.
Outside Korea, broadband services are still in their infancy with most services only launched in the past year. Despite the initial enthusiasm among early adopters, there remains the problem that no killer application has emerged that will encourage users to switch to broadband apart from high speed access.
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