European broadband catching up A new report on European broadband finds that the Continent is finally catching the broadband bug. Broadband households in Western Europe increased by nearly 65% last year, a rate twice as fast as the US. The highest growth was in France, until recently an Internet laggard. Why are the French jumping on board the broadband bandwagon now? The surest driver of all: price. Worldwide, only Japan has cheaper bandwidth ...more