The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has reported that the average price of a month’s broadband subscription in the OECD is $49 (roughly £24). Fibre To The Home/Building (FTTH) technology is the most expensive ($51) and fixed wireless the cheapest ($33).

Typically this figure does not represent a per megabit (Mb) comparison. The average price per advertised Mbit/s of connectivity in the OECD is naturally a lot less at $18 (£9):


Meanwhile the average advertised download speed in the OECD is 13.7 Mbit/s, with the fastest average speeds coming from Japan (93 Mbit/s), France (44 Mbit/s), Korea (43 Mbit/s) and Sweden (21 Mbit/s).

FTTH advertised download speeds in the OECD average 77.1 Mbit/s, much higher than DSL (9.0 Mbit/s), cable (8.6 Mbit/s) or fixed wireless (1.8 Mbit/s). Naturally we see a similar trend with uploads:


Some 30 countries make up the OECD and 20 of those are known to impose data caps on broadband connections. Interestingly the average cap size is 21GB's of monthly traffic.

Once a customer reaches the monthly cap, the ISP reduces download speeds in 29% of the offers to an average of just 82Kbps! In the remaining 71% of offers they'd pay an average of $34 per additional GB until the end of the month.