With respect to broadband adoption, our forecasts – from the Gartner Group – are consistent with the slowing growth of broadband penetration in recent years. For example, the latest data from the Pew Project on the Internet and American Life, shown in Figure 3, shows that the average annual growth in broadband penetration has fell by nearly 50 percent between 2005-6 and 2008-9, from 28 percent to only 15 percent.