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17 Countries to Reach 60% Household Broadband Penetration by 2012, Says New Study (CircleID) Worldwide consumer broadband connections will grow from 323 million connections in 2007 to 499 million in 2012, according to latest research by Gartner.

Broadband to reach 77% of U.S. households by 2012, Gartner says (Network World) The United States will close its digital divide significantly within the next four years, with 77% of US households having a broadband Internet subscription, according to a new Gartner study.

US Poised for Broadband Explosion, Says Gartner (PC World) U.S. broadband penetration will increase over the next for years after having fallen behind recently, according to Gartner...

UMC's Geller among Pawlenty's appointees to broadband task force (Crookston Daily Times) Governor Tim Pawlenty on Monday appointed 20 people from across Minnesota to the High Speed Broadband Task Force, including Dr. Jack Geller, Ph.D. Geller recently began working at the University of Minnesota, Crookston as a professor and head of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Department.

Broadband Innovations, Part 3: The Film Editor's Dream (PC World via Yahoo! News) A 10-gbps fiber-optics connection enables a Swedish film editor to do his job in real time from his dream home in a beautiful rural village.

Creative Vistas Names Andy Westcott to Lead Broadband-Related Canadian Field Operations (Broadcast Newsroom) WHITBY, Ontario & LOS ANGELES, BUSINESS WIRE -- Creative Vistas, Inc. (OTCBB:CVAS), a leading provider of advanced video security and surveillance solutions as well as broadband-related services, today announced that it has named Andy Westcott, 54 as Senior Vice President, Canadian Field Operations for Dependable HomeTech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Creative Vistas.

Sector Update: Broadband Soars After Qualcomm, Nokia Settlement (Schaeffers Research) The broadband sector is up sharply this afternoon, topping the list of the best performing sectors today...( Read More )

Broadband Innovations, Part 2: Fiber Optics Reaches the Tipi (PC World) In Part 2 of our four-part Broadband Innovations series, see how the Ktunaxa Nation of Canada uses fast broadband to save its indigenous language and culture from extinction.

Europe’s next-generation broadband (IST Results) An enormous research effort by Europe’s leading broadband players has helped accelerate dramatically the rollout of next-generation broadband services reaching speeds in the 10s of Mbit/s in many European countries. That is just the start.

AT&T: Economy Squeezing Broadband (CommunicationsDirect) AT&T is seeing some consumers terminate home broadband connections for economic reasons, CFO Rick Lindner told analysts today when discussing AT&T’s third-quarter earnings. Those results reflect a tale of three companies: a growing wireless business, a recovering commercial business and a consumer wireline operation in...