more on OECD Broadband Statistics to June 2006

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From: frode greisen <[email protected]>
Date: October 18, 2006 12:29:39 PM EDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IP] OECD Broadband Statistics to June 2006

Dave, for IP if you wish,

As a Dane I'd be proud and happy if my country's leading role here  
was significant, but I don't believe it is.

In Denmark, and I guess in most other countries too, the marketing  
machines of the telcos have defined broadband as anything which is  
not dial-up even if the speed hardly allows any application that is  
significantly different from dial-up applications. For instance our  
incumbent telco sells 'broadband' connections at 160 kbps downstream  
and 128 kbps upstream, not much different from the old ISDN offering.

Nothing wrong with DSL as such, I have 8/1 Mbps at home - though not  
from the incumbent.

Frode

On 17. okt 2006, at 18:41, David Farber wrote:

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> people/<dot.gif>OECD Broadband Statistics to June 2006
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> 	This page is directly accessible at <http://www.oecd.org/sti/ict/ 
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> Over the past year, the number of broadband subscribers in the OECD  
> increased 33% from 136 million in June 2005 to 181 million in June  
> 2006. This growth increased broadband penetration rates in the OECD  
> from 11.7 in June 2005 to 15.5 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants  
> one year later. The main highlights for the first half of 2006 are:
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> Northern European countries have continued their advance with high  
> broadband penetration rates. In June 2006, six countries (Denmark,  
> the Netherlands, Iceland, Korea, Switzerland and Finland) led the  
> OECD in broadband penetration, each with at least 25 subscribers  
> per 100 inhabitants.
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> Denmark now leads the OECD with a broadband penetration rate of  
> 29.3 subscribers per 100 inhabitants.
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> The strongest per-capita subscriber growth comes from Denmark,  
> Australia, Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, Luxembourg, Sweden and  
> the United Kingdom.
> Each country added more than 6 subscribers per 100 inhabitants  
> during the past year.
>
> Fibre to the home is becoming  increasingly important for broadband  
> access, particularly in countries with high broadband penetration.  
> In Denmark, Danish power companies are rolling out fibre to  
> consumers as they work to bury overhead power lines. Municipal  
> broadband projects are also expanding in many northern European  
> countries and throughout the OECD. Telecommunciation operators in  
> several OECD countries have also begun or announced large fibre-to- 
> the-premises rollouts.
>
> Japan leads the OECD in fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) with 6.3  
> million fibre subscribers in June 2006. Fibre subscribers alone in  
> Japan outnumber total broadband subscribers in 22 of the 30 OECD  
> countries.
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> The total number of ADSL subscriptions in Korea and Japan have  
> continued to decline as more users upgrade to fibre-based connections.
>
> DSL continues to be the leading platform in 28 OECD countries.  
> Cable modem subscribers outnumber DSL in Canada and the United States.
>
> The United States has the largest total number of broadband  
> subscribers in the OECD at 57 million. US broadband subscribers now  
> represent 36% of all broadband connections in the OECD, up from 31%  
> in December 2005.
>
> Canada continues to lead the G7 group of industrialized countries  
> in broadband penetration.
>
> The breakdown of broadband technologies in June 2006 is as follows:
>      o DSL: 63%
>      o Cable modem: 29%
>      o Other technologies (e.g. satellite, fibre and fixed  
> wireless) : 8%
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> Released: 13 October 2006
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