OECD Broadband Portal Launched

From the announcement:
This release of the June 2007 data on OECD broadband subscribers coincides with the launch of a broadband statistics portal which will contain additional indicators from November 2007. These include: broadband prices; advertised broadband speeds; household broadband usage, the number of households with a home computer; and the number of businesses with broadband connections and company websites.

Selected Statistics from Announcement:
OECD broadband statistics (June 2007)

+ Over the past year, the number of broadband subscribers in the OECD increased 24% from 178 million in June 2006 to 221 million subscribers in June 2007. This growth increased broadband penetration rates in the OECD from 15.1 in June 2006 to 18.8 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants one year later.

+ Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Korea and Norway and Iceland lead the OECD in broadband penetration, each with over 29 subscribers per 100 inhabitants.

+ The average price of a month broadband subscription in the OECD is USD 49. On average, fibre to the home/building is the most expensive (USD 51) and fixed wireless the cheapest (USD 33)

+ The average advertised download speed in the OECD is 13.7 Mbit/s.

+ The fastest average advertised download speeds are in Japan (93 Mbit/s), France (44 Mbit/s), Korea (43 Mbit/s) and Sweden (21 Mbit/s)

+ Japan has the fastest residential download speed available in the OECD at 1 Gbit/s ( 1 Gbit/s = 1000 Mbit/s)

+ Explicit bit/data caps are imposed on broadband connections in 20 of the 30 OECD countries.

+ There we no bitcaps among surveyed firms in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United States

Source: OECD

This entry was posted on Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 7:07 am and is filed under Business and Economics, Source File. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.