Broadband equipment sales were $11.2 billion in 2006, as users are opting for faster access to the Web. Household broadband is expected to exceed 50% in the U.S. and Japan for the first time this year, and will do so in Europe in 2008, iSuppli predicts. Global broadband subscribers will grow to 622.7 million by 2011, more than double the 270.4 million in 2006. “ADSL remained the leading broadband technology around the world in 2006, with 72% of the subscribers, while cable modems ended 2006 with 22%,” said Steve Rago, iSuppli principal analyst. “The ADSL market is headed for a major inflection point … This has happened in Japan already, as many service providers have migrated to fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology, which offers a 15-times increase in bandwidth compared to ADSL.”