The Computing, Internet Service, and Broadband Access @ Home report from Parks Associates projects that the broadband consumer market will reach 24 million subscribers by the end of 2004.

According to the report, household PC penetration will reach 56 percent by the end of 1999 and 71 percent by 2004; multi-PC penetration is expected to jump from 18 percent in 1999 to 34 percent in 2004.  Household Internet penetration will reach 67 percent by 2004, a 72 percent increase from 1999's penetration of 39 percent.

At the end of September 1999, more than 1.3 million U.S. households subscribed to some type of broadband Internet services (cable modem service, DSL, satellite-based Internet access, and broadband fixed wireless), with cable modem service claiming about 1 million subscribers (excluding Canadian cable modem customers).

Cable modems, DSL, and satellite/wireless will claim 47 percent, 45 percent, and 8 percent, respectively, of the 24 million residential broadband subscriber base.  

From the article "Quantifying Broadband."

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