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Telecommunications Letter: Market Clarity hits back at OECD in broadband stats battle
Telecommunications Letter: Market Clarity hits back at OECD in broadband stats battle | Letter: Market Clarity hits back at OECD in broadband stats battle |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 23 May 2007 | |
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Page 3 of 3 In our report, we also examine the nuances of data collection across countries, and suggest that a margin of error should be applied to the ranking of country's performance. One need look no further than the difference in Australia's broadband numbers reported by the ACCC (3.6 million) and the ABS (3.9 million) for the period ending September 2006 to see evidence of how the methodology used to collect a country's source data can impact a country's standing. Featured Whitepaper
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Market Clarity has produced this report because we consider the broadband debate to be of great importance. We stand by our decision to make this information public, because we firmly believe in the value of public data and public debate. With this in mind, we have sought to offer readers of this document a rich data set - one which allows interested parties to link the information in our data set back to official country reporting on broadband - rather than being asked to rely on a "black box" as the source of their information. It should also be understood that Market Clarity's decision to link our data set to published data from each OECD nation's statistical or regulatory body means that our analysis will also reflect any faults, deficiencies or vagaries inherent within each nation's source data set. Market Clarity has fully disclosed the methodology used to compile our data set, and we've provided a comprehensive set of references to source data published by national statistics and regulatory bodies. We also acknowledge that there was a production (paste) error in the last two columns of Table 10 in the first cut of our report, which we noticed shortly after the report was published on our Website. An updated version of the document was posted on our Website within 24 hours of publishing the original document. Because we made the research available for free download, and did not require registration, we had no way to ensure that every reader of the first version returned to download the correction. We request that anyone who may have an earlier version of the Market Clarity report, download the most recent version. To review the Market Clarity report visit: http://www.marketclarity.com.au/. ** Editor's note: iTWire will not publish any further correspondence on this issue. Anyone interested in commenting or contributing is invited to use the comment facility provided.{moscomment} |
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