Global Broadband and WLAN (Wi-Fi) Networked Households Forecast 2012-2021

By the end of 2016, 793 million households worldwide were connected to the internet via fixed-line broadband, a 5% increase from 2015. Of these 793 million households, 587 million households (74%) were using a wireless router to create wireless local area network (WLAN), or Wi-Fi home network. Asia Pacific had the highest number of Wi-Fi households in 2016, representing 43% of global Wi-Fi households.              

This report provides fixed-line broadband households, fixed-line broadband household penetration, Wi-Fi router ownership, Wi-Fi households, Wi-Fi household penetration, the Connected Device installed base, and Connected Devices per fixed-line broadband household globally, for six regions and 27 countries.