TAG | OECD's latest broadband rankings: good news and bad |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 06 November 2007 | |
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The OECD has also launched a new broadband portal and has significantly increased the amount of information it provides on broadband in member nations. Australia's increased broadband ranking was the good news. The bad was that, with FTTH presently stalled, we are falling even further behind the most advanced nations. The OECD reports that: "Operators in several countries continue upgrading subscriber lines to fibre. fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) and fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) subscriptions now comprise eight percent of all broadband connections in the OECD, up from seven percent a year ago, and the percentage is growing. Fibre connections account for 36 percent of all Japanese broadband subscriptions and 31 percent in Korea." The figure in Australia was so low as to be rated zero! There is also now lots of information on data prices including a chart showing average monthly data cap size in those countries that use this pricing model: Canada, Czech Republic, Portugal, Iceland, New Zealand, Australia and Belgium. Australia had the second lowest cap size (15GB) after Belgium (13GB) as against leader Canada with 65GB). Australia's price per additional MB (in $US purchasing power parity) was way above any of the others, at $US.105. The nearest was Portugal at $US0.04 followed by Iceland at $US0.03. New Zealand came out quite well at $US0.10.{moscomment}
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