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20 Austria 13."

About the DSL Forum

The DSL Forum is tailoring DSL to meet the needs of the next generation of
multi-media services and the online community.

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EHP includes detailed, exhaustively
researched, by-country information including: number of hospitals by
type of hospital and bed size, average length of stay, total number of
hospital beds, emergency rooms, operating rooms by type, recovery
beds, ICU beds by type, number of ambulances by type, dialysis
centers, nursing homes, total number of physicians by surgical and
non-surgical specialty, along with population statistics , gross
domestic product, national health care spending, and much more.0
13 Switzerland 16.5
14 Singapore 15.0

Source: Data provided for the DSL Forum by Point Topic

European Union (EU) countries continue to make up the world's number one
DSL region, accounting for almost one-third of total DSL subscribers
worldwide. "Countries such as Turkey, Mexico or the Philippines would not even
have been considered as mass-market targets for a high-tech premium service
a few years ago.

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EHP data is now available for Spain, The Netherlands , Sweden,
Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom, and Luxembourg. Significant growth in DSL subscribers over the quarter is also
evident in Thailand (27%), Poland (25%), Mexico (19%) and Portugal (18%).9
2 Taiwan 24.55
Latin America 3,803 ,367 3.

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The contents of this report are as follows:

Chapter 1 Austria 16

Chapter 2 Belgium 26

Chapter 3 Cyprus 36

Chapter 4 Denmark 38

Chapter 5 Finland 46

Chapter 6 France 52

Chapter 7 Germany 64

Chapter 8 Greece 74

Chapter 9 Ireland 80

Chapter 10 Italy 90

Chapter 11 Luxembourg 100

Chapter 12 Malta 106

Chapter 13 The Netherlands 108

Chapter 14 Portugal 118

Chapter 15 Spain 126

Chapter 16 Sweden 138

Chapter 17 United Kingdom 144

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For more information visit
http://www. Both Norway and Japan are approaching that mark. Of the
top 20 countries by DSL penetration of phone lines, 13 are in Europe.4
16 Sweden 14. Brazil has grown by more than
10% in 2005 to pass the two million subscriber mark, with Mexico and
Argentina totaling more than 300,000 each. With Turkey
leading the way, it has experienced a 24% growth in subscribers so far this
year, to reach 1.

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Five countries have more than seven
million subscribers, and a further eight have at least two million
DSL-enabled phone lines.3
12 Italy 18.23
Global Total 107,300,387 100.00

Source: Data provided for the DSL Forum by Point Topic

Latin America continues to show strong growth, gaining almost 420,000
subscribers in the first quarter of 2005 . For more information about the DSL Forum, check out
www.

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2 million subscribers in the first three
months of 2005.70
South and East Asia 20,464,500 19. By developing new standards
and embracing new applications, the forum works to streamline processes,
define specifications and share best practices that set the stage for
effective deployments, and explosive global DSL growth .

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Top 20 countries: DSL penetration of phone lines, Q1 05
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Ranking Country Penetration
(DSL/100 phone lines)
Q1 2005

1 South Korea 28. The EU added almost 4. As the early adopters start to slow down slightly,
the baton passes to the emerging countries," commented Tim Johnson of Point
Topic.

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European Hospital and Physician -EHP- Database 2005 Release Now Available from Medtech Insight Detailing Current Statistics for 9 Major European Countries wi

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North America 17,914,205 16.5 million DSL subscribers.

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European Hospital and
Physician Data (EHP) 2005 Release., Medtech Insight and TforG's
suite of European healthcare databases -- your ultimate source for
accurate, reliable European Healthcare Data (also see
http://www. TforG has carefully compiled, developed and
refined this set of data over the last 10 years, using industry
experts in each country and a combination of public and private
sources , national organizations and primary research.3
9 Norway 19.

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Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. The 2005 EHP release includes the latest available data from
each country, representing data reported between 2002 and 2004.com/euiq/ehp/ehp . Together these
methods provide standardized healthcare information that is
unparalleled, updated annually and comparable across the European
Union.

Regional DSL subscriber totals, Q1 2005

Region Q1 05 DSL % of total DSL
subscriber total subscribers by region

Asia-Pacific 26,300,668 24.

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DSL, the world's most popular broadband technology,
reached a global total of 107 million by 31 the second
largest subscriber increase worldwide.8 million DSL subscribers
by 31 March 2005.

Countries with more than one million DSL subscribers
31 March 2005

Ranking Country Total DSL Q1 2005

1 China 19,497,000
2 USA 15,106,294
3 Japan 13,887,000
4 Germany 7,450,000
5 France 7,184,000
6 South Korea 6,729,406
7 UK 4,987,450
8 Italy 4,935,000
9 Taiwan 3,200 ,000
10 Spain 2,884,807
11 Canada 2,807,911
12 Brazil 2,092,500
13 Netherlands 2,032,500
14 Australia 1 ,351,000
15 Belgium 1,112,350

Source: Data provided for the DSL Forum by Point Topic

China, comfortably the largest DSL population worldwide and accounting for
95% of total subscribers in South and South East Asia, has added more than
2. The UK is the fastest
growing established DSL market, adding over 20% to reach almost five
million subscribers, but other fast -growing countries are generally those
at an earlier stage of market development. Turkey has already added almost
180,000 subscribers to DSL services this year -- representing a growth of
39%.5
15 Spain 15. Established in
1994, the DSL Forum is an international industry consortium of over 200
leading service providers, equipment manufacturers and other interested
parties .

List of Economics Academic Departments and Faculties.

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For each country, EHP data are obtained from national databases,
specialized analysts, interviews with public, private and university
hospital administrators, professional organizations and key opinion
leaders.medtechinsight.

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Medtech Insight is the exclusive distributor of the EU I.
Over 10 million new subscribers chose DSL
(digital subscriber line) for broadband services in the first quarter of
2005, according to the latest data produced for the DSL Forum by industry
analyst Point Topic.2
18 Canada 14.

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5 million subscribers to DSL services in the first quarter of 2005, to a
record total of almost 19 .

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5 Belgium 21. Middle East and Africa, the
world's smallest DSL region , has also emerged as a DSL market.

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10 Japan 19.51
Other Europe 1,658,074 1.54
Middle East and Africa 1,505,511 1.

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Country profiles also feature an overview of supply and demand, an
examination of key governmental, legal and political influences on the
sector and an analysis of wholesale trading and the pipeline, LNG and
storage infrastructure, now and in the future . EU I., is the
leading provider of business information and market intelligence for
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PRESS RELEASE DSL Gains 10 Million New Global Subscribers in First Quarter of 2005

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8 Netherlands 20.

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DUBLIN, Ireland--- -Europe's gas
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11 Denmark 18.07
EU 35,654,062 33."

Steve Kingdom, president of the DSL Forum , added, "DSL roll-out continues
to reach unprecedented levels, in both established and emerging countries .

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In the fourth
quarter, data for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia,
Slovenia, Slovakia , and Turkey will be released.

France, UK, Germany and Japan all added over half a million new subscribers
to broadband DSL in the first three months of 2005 and a further nine
countries gained more than 100,000 subscribers.7
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19 Germany 13.

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Surgical Procedure (ESP) Volumes Data - 2005 Release is also available
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for inpatient and outpatient surgeries performed in public, private
and university hospitals in France, Germany , Italy, the United Kingdom
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In terms of market penetration, eight countries have now passed the DSL
Forum's first stage target for a global broadband DSL mass-market (20% of
all phone lines). And I think there's another cycle of growth to come as
the established DSL markets tackle the problem of making broadband
connections ubiquitous to all their citizens.
The DSL Forum facilitates DSL's global dominance by advancing technical
developments, such as our next generation DSL network architecture
specifications and our new work launched for VDSL2 specification support.

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EHP is the latest addition to EU I. Canada gained almost 165,000
subscribers in the quarter, to total more than 2. It has set a
target of 500 million broadband DSL subscribers by 2010.