Fixed wired broadband subscriptions reached 321 million in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development area in June 2012, for an average penetration of 26 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, a 1.4 percent increase over the previous six months.
Fiber to the home subscriptions also now represent 14.9 percent (48.7 million) of total fixed network connections. Fiber to home deployments grew by 12.7 percent in 2012, four times as much as fixed broadband at 3.27 percent.
Luxembourg (324 percent), Austria (193.9 percent), United Kingdom (169.9 percent) and Switzerland (149.6 percent) had the strongest annual growth in fiber connections, while seven countries had growth rates above 100 percent year over year and 11 countries grew fiber connections more than 50 percent.
Throughout the OECD, there also are about five million fixed wireless connections.
Mobile broadband increased by 13.8 percent year over year and reached a penetration of 62.75 lines per 100 inhabitants, up from 58.6 in June 2012.
The total number of mobile broadband subscriptions in the OECD area is just above 780 million. Finland (106.5), Sweden (104.8), Australia (103.4) and Korea (103.0) have over one subscriber per capita, the OECD says.
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