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Figure 9. Korea subscription for fixed BB (t), cable modem (c), DSL (d), and wireless BB (w)

Figure 10. Japan subscription for fixed BB (t), cable modem (c), DSL (d), and wireless BB (w)

The model predicts that the mobile BB sub-
scriptions will reach to 194M for Japan, 189M
for USA and 75M for Korea by 2013. The forecasts
for fixed BB subscriber numbers are expected to
approach an asymptote around 37 million, 113

million and 19 million in Japan, USA and in
Koreas respectively. Detail of the forecasted
numbers for three selected countries is shown in
Table-D in Appendix-D.