{"id":1296,"date":"2012-07-19T08:14:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T07:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2012-07-19T09:31:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T08:31:57","slug":"oecd-ranks-uk-8th-in-its-fixed-broadband-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/07\/oecd-ranks-uk-8th-in-its-fixed-broadband-rankings.html","title":{"rendered":"OECD Ranks UK 8th in its Fixed Broadband Rankings of 34 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\" target=\"_new\">Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development<\/a> (OECD), which includes 34 countries that claim to support democracy and a market economy, has ranked the UK 8th in its latest Q4-2011 fixed wired broadband rankings, with <strong>33.3 subscribers per 100 inhabitants<\/strong>. But we do poorly in other areas.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Overall <strong>Switzerland<\/strong> comes top with an impressive 39.9 subscribers per 100 inhabitants, which compares will with the <strong>OECD average of 25.6<\/strong>. Bottom was <strong>Turkey<\/strong> with a score of just 10.4. Fixed wired broadband subscriptions reached 314 million in the OECD area at the end of 2011, while growth slowed to 1.8% in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of technology, 55.8% of fixed broadband connections in the OECD came from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">DSL<\/a> (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">ADSL<\/a>) services, 30% from cable (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>) and 13.7% from fibre optic (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a> \/ B \/P). Sadly the UK remains dominated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/adsl\">DSL<\/a> connections (see below) and has practically no fibre in its diet.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-internet-statistics\/oecd_dec_2011_fixed_broadband_ranking.gif\" alt=\"oecd dec 2011 fixed broadband ranking\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Elsewhere the <strong>average advertised broadband download speed<\/strong> (i.e. not real-world performance) within the OECD for September 2011 was <strong>41,009Kbps<\/strong> (41Mbps), which falls to 34,443Kbps (34.4Mbps) for the United Kingdom. Unsurprisingly <strong>Japan<\/strong> (149,616Kbps) and <strong>Sweden<\/strong> (101,807Kbps) top the pack thanks to their abundance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a> style telecoms infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>This still seems surprisingly high given that most of the UK remains dominated by up to 24Mbps (ADSL2+) technology, although the OECD only used 11 offers to make the calculation and this could potentially be skewed if they included too many superfast broadband packages. It&#8217;s also possible that faster business connections might be having some impact. The median score of 20,480Kbps (20Mbps)\u00a0is perhaps closer to reality.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-internet-statistics\/oecd_dec_2011_advertised_download_speeds.gif\" alt=\"oecd dec 2011 advertised download speeds\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In terms of price the UK was found to charge <strong>between $0.61 (\u00a30.39) to $4.20 (\u00a32.68) per megabit<\/strong> (Mb) of advertised speed (including line charge), which makes us one of the cheapest markets for comparable value.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/wp-content\/gallery\/2012-internet-statistics\/oecd_dec_2011_prices_per_megabit_usd.gif\" alt=\"oecd dec 2011 prices per megabit usd\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Finally the OECD is also home to a total of 667,400,934 Mobile Broadband connections, which includes 403m from Smartphones, 257m from dedicated mobile internet connections (e.g. USB Modems etc.), 4.3m from fixed terrestrial services (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">wifi<\/a>) and just 1.5m for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/satellite\">Satellite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which includes 34 countries that claim to support democracy and a market economy, has ranked the UK 8th in its latest Q4-2011 fixed wired broadband rankings, with 33.3 subscribers per 100 inhabitants. 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