Mobile Broadband Grows 18% in OECD Region

Mobile broadband subscriptions have reached nearly 700 million in OECD countries, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reports.

Mobile broadband has grown at about an 18 percent rate from June 2011 to June 2012, largely driven by continuing strong demand for tablets and smart phones.

The average broadband penetration in the OECD area is 56.6 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, OECD says.

Korea (104.2) and Sweden (101.8) are the only two countries with more mobile broadband subscriptions than inhabitants.
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Fixed wired broadband subscriptions reached 321 million in the OECD area in June 2012, for an average penetration of 26 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, a 1.7 percent increase over the previous six months. Keep in mind that penetration per home depends on your assumptions about housing density in each country.

As a rough assumption, you might assume average households of two people each, so fixed broadband penetration might be 52 percent of homes.

Digital subscriber line  subscriptions are being replaced by fiber connections, though slowly.  The share of fiber subscriptions in fixed broadband has increased to 14.2 percent, while DSL represented 54.7 percent of the total fixed wired broadband subscription.

Since DSL and fiber represent 69 percent of connections, That could mean roughly 30 percent of connections.