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OECD Broadband Statistics
21 Jun 2010 | 12.03 Europe/London
The UK is 12th and the USA 15th for subscribers per 100 inhabitants in the latest OECD statistics. The revised numbers quote fixed line connections of 256k or faster downstream and cover the OECD's 31 member countries as at December 2009.
At 26.4 and 29.5 subscribers per 100 population respectively the US and UK are ahead of Australia and Japan but well behind the leaders Denmark and Netherlands at 37.1.
Analysis of the data shows little correlation between population concentration and broadband penetration - in the UK 50% of the population occupy 7.7% of the land area whereas in the US the equivalent is 13.9% of the land area. Denmark and the Netherlands have more evenly distributed populations with 21 and 25.5% of the land being used to house 50% of the population.
Finland and Australia show a small drop in broadband subscriber numbers from June to December 2009, while Greece, Germany and Switzerland are leading the growth at around 3 extra subscribers per 100 population in the same time frame. UK and US subscriber growth rates are close to the OECD average of 1.4 per 100 inhabitants.
[ OECD Broadband Portal ]
At 26.4 and 29.5 subscribers per 100 population respectively the US and UK are ahead of Australia and Japan but well behind the leaders Denmark and Netherlands at 37.1.
Analysis of the data shows little correlation between population concentration and broadband penetration - in the UK 50% of the population occupy 7.7% of the land area whereas in the US the equivalent is 13.9% of the land area. Denmark and the Netherlands have more evenly distributed populations with 21 and 25.5% of the land being used to house 50% of the population.
Finland and Australia show a small drop in broadband subscriber numbers from June to December 2009, while Greece, Germany and Switzerland are leading the growth at around 3 extra subscribers per 100 population in the same time frame. UK and US subscriber growth rates are close to the OECD average of 1.4 per 100 inhabitants.
[ OECD Broadband Portal ]