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The RESEARCH GROUP projected the Asia Pacific region, including Japan, to have 183.3 million net subscribers in 2003, compared to 162.8 million in the United States.

Western Europe will have an estimated 162.2 million users.

Asia Pacific, however, will lag behind the United States in terms of Internet access revenue for at least another five years.

By 2005, the Asia Pacific Internet access market will be worth $17.2 billion. The U.S. market will continue to lead with $21.2 billion.

“This differential between subscribers and access revenue illustrates a major reason why Internet use is still growing rapidly in Asia Pacific,” Gartner Dataquest’s senior analyst Andrew Chetham said in a statement.

“The region has some of the lowest Internet access rates in the world, and prices are still coming down as a result of competition or, in some cases, government direction.”

While the growth of Internet access continues to be impressive, there are "holdouts" even in developed countries. Percentage of residents who, when surveyed, had used the Internet in the previous 30 days.

U.S. Internet Service Providers (ISPs), which have refrained from slashing prices, will continue to reap strong revenues as their customers buy higher value services beyond simple net access, Chetham told Reuters.

The region had 78 million Internet subscribers at the end of 2000 and 248 million are expected by 2005.

Japan, with 24.4 million online, had the largest subscriber base at the end of 2000, followed by South Korea (16.7 million), China (14.6 million) and Taiwan (4.6 million).

China is expected to overtake South Korea as the second largest market in the region by this year but will not overtake Japan until 2004.

By 2005, China and Japan combined will have about 151.5 million subscribers, representing 61 percent of the total Asia Pacific subscriber base.

Chinese ISPs will eventually be amongst the largest and potentially the most profitable in the world, Chetham said.

“The ISPs business is about scale. If you’re taking the same revenue from each (customer), but its costing you less to service each one, that’s the path to profitability,” Chetham said.

India is expected to have the highest growth rates in the region with average subscriber growth of 44 percent a year between 2001 and 2005.

India will have 21.3 million subscribers by 2005, making it the fourth largest market after China, Japan and South Korea.

Three Critical Success Traits Shared By "Mom & Pop" Type Web Sites That Are Earning $100,000 to $600,000 Every Year

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Success Trait #1:

First of all, one of the reason's why they're sooooo successful NOW is because they didn't let their lack of knowledge stop them. Despite the fact that many of them had no computer experience, never mind experience using the Internet -- and despite the fact that many had never owned a business before -- they just plain got started and didn't worry about making everything "perfect" the first time.

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Success Trait #2:

I've already mentioned that these successful web site owners didn't worry about making everything "perfect" right away. And this is important, because rather than overload themselves by trying to become Internet marketing gurus BEFORE they got started, they just dove in and focused on one marketing strategy at a time, working extremely hard to maximize their profits with one strategy before moving onto the next.

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Success Trait #3:

Interestingly, the one point that kept coming up again and again, sometimes two or three times in a single interview, was that all of these successful site owners confess they could have been earning a MUCH bigger income MUCH faster had they only avoided the costly mistakes started educating themselves sooner.

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