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U.S. leads the world in broadband revenues

The United States continues to lead the world in broadband revenues even as the U.S.’s subscription rate rank continues to drop, according to a new report by Pyramid Research.

As Light Reading reports:

According to data compiled for the report, Global Fixed and Mobile Broadband Outlook, the U.S. generated more than $32 billion in broadband revenues in 2008, a long way ahead of second-place Japan, which generated $23 billion in broadband revenues.

Germany was third in the chart, with more than $11 billion in revenues, followed by China with $7.9 billion.

The per-capita revenues, when thrown against total country population numbers, was quite a different story, with Japan’s revenues almost 80% higher per citizen than in the United States, while China’s per-person revenue came in at just $5.91 per person, a number that will likely rise dramatically as the country works to improve on its broadband penetration of just 3.7%.

Finally, I ran Pyramid Research’s numbers against the total of number of actual broadband subscribers and came up against some really surprising trends: While the complaint is often leveled that U.S. telecoms are gouging customers for less service, service providers in Japan and Germany, particularly the former, are seeing much higher annual revenues per user.