OECD broadband table

eircomtribunal

The newly released OECD broadband table shows no improvement for Ireland – no surprise for us. Those "subscriptions per 100 population" figures just refuse to listen to the false "look at our 75% growth" propaganda ComReg, TIF and the incumbent are bombarding us with.
See the table here.

IOFFL comment on ENN article

"Despite government and ComReg claims about how Ireland is rapidly increasing broadband uptake, this latest OECD report proves we are falling further behind at least 18 OECD countries in terms of growth," said Damien Mulley, chairman of broadband lobby group IrelandOffline, in an e-mailed statement.

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damien

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eircomtribunal

But according to communications Minister Noel Dempsey we have only ourselves to blame (answer to a Dail question on 16 November 2005:

The ranking of Ireland against other European countries reflects the late launch of competitive, affordable broadband by the private broadband service providers in Ireland and the slow take up by consumers.

In that answer Noel also gave one of the best comments on broadband availability I have heard to date:

In essence, there are broadband technologies that can deliver broadband to virtually any broadband customer in Ireland right now.

He sure is right with this one!

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Is there an easy way to put something like the OECD table into a post?

Sponge Bob

eircomtribunal wrote:

Is there an easy way to put something like the OECD table into a post?

"Broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants, by technology, December 2005"									

		 DSL	Cable	Other	Total 		Rank 		Total Subscribers 
Iceland		25.9	0.1	0.6	26.7		1		78 017
Korea 		13.6	8.3	3.4	25.4		2		12 190 711
Netherlands	 15.7	9.6	0	25.3		3		4 113 573
Denmark		 15.3	7.2	2.5	25		4		1 350 415
Switzerland	 14.7	8	0.4	23.1		5		1 725 446
Finland		 19.5	2.8	0.1	22.5		6		1 174 200
Norway*		17.8	2.9	1.2	21.9		7		1 006 766
Canada		 10.1	10.8	0.1	21.9		8		6 706 699
Sweden*		 13.3	3.4	3.6	20.3		9		1 830 000
Belgium		 11.3	7	0	18.3		10		1 902 739
Japan		 11.3	2.5	3.8	17.6		11		22 515 091
United States	 6.5	9	1.3	16.8		12		49 391 060
United Kingdom	 11.5	4.4	0	15.9		13		9 539 900
France		 14.3	0.9	0	15.2		14		9 465 600
Luxembourg	 13.3	1.6	0	14.9		15		67 357
Austria*	 8.1	5.8	0.2	14.1		16		1 155 000
Australia	 10.8	2.6	0.4	13.8		17		2 785 000
Germany		 12.6	0.3	0.1	13		18		10 706 600
Italy		 11.3	0	0.6	11.9		19		6 896 696
Spain		 9.2	2.5	0.1	11.7		20		4 994 274
Portugal 	 6.6	4.9	0	11.5		21		1 212 034
New Zealand	 7.3	0.4	0.4	8.1		22		331 000
[b]Ireland		 5.0	0.6	1.1	6.7		23		270 700[/b]	
Czech Republic	 3.0	1.4	2	6.4		24		650 000
Hungary		 4.1	2.1	0.1	6.3		25		639 505
Slovak Republic	 2.0	0.4	0.2	2.5		26		133 900
Poland 		 1.6	0.7	0.1	2.4		27		897 659
Mexico 		 1.5	0.6	0	2.2		28		2 304 520
Turkey 		 2.1	0	0	2.1		29		1 530 000
Greece 		 1.4	0	0.0	1.4 		30		155 418
OECD 		 8.4	4.2	1	[b]13.6[/b]				157 719 880

No !

eircomtribunal

To reach this government goal, last stated by a DCMNR spokesperson on an OECD broadband conference in Porto, on 26th of October 2004, we need a miracle.
In 2005, supposedly the year of strong Irish broadband growth, our per capita broadband growth was just at the OECD average of 3.2 new broadband subscriptions per 100 population. But I suppose the DCMNR knows something we don't:(again from the slide the DCMNR was showing on the conference.)

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Sponge Bob

Note that the standard GROWTH measure in the OECD is "per-capita subscriber growth" and that the top performing countries added over 6 subscribers per 100 inhabitants ..... where Ireland added 2.6 per 100.

Our growth rate is less than half that of the best performing countries.

Sponge Bob

from what I can see Buttsy has only cranked out 10 press releases all year.....in the general spirit of uselessness over in that place

damien

IrelandOffline gave the all the reporters that rang us today the ComReg contact details. We're all for balanced stories. Maybe they'll trot out their latest line: (the n can be silent at times) "ComReg don't comment on IrelandOffline" I personally interpet that as "and we would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids".

Yes, that's right, IrelandOffline is the new Scooby Doo. Martin is Fred, Eamonn is shaggy , JWT can be scooby. I guess I'm Velma Elana can be Daphne.

eircomtribunal

Sponge Bob wrote:

any comment from Comreg so far?

"There is no denying that we would like to move forward faster, but the latest OECD broadband figures nevertheless confirm that we are steadily moving in the right direction: From place 26 in 2001 we made a big step forward to place 24 in 2002. We successfully held rank 24 in 2003 and 2004; and by the end of 2005 we have moved to place 23. The trajectory of our Broadband development is right on course..."

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zuma

Im so proud:

We successfully held rank 24 in 2003 and 2004; and by the end of 2005 we have moved to place 23.

Ronan|Raven

Were now behind New Zealand?! Living here the last few months and tbh it is like Ireland 2 years ago in ways yet they are above us.

Sponge Bob

eircomtribunal wrote:

the latest OECD broadband figures nevertheless confirm that we are steadily moving in the right direction

I have Buttsy<ised> the above . Tell you what. Lets send this out with a Comreg 'from: address to

journos *.*
politicos *.*

and see what Comreg do then , does anybody have a mailing list handy ??

Comreg is delighted to announce that Ireland has moved up another place in the annual OECD Global Broadband Chart . Our progress is steady. From a slightly disappointing but understandable 26th place in 2001 we moved to 24th in 2002. Despite strong competition from our peers in the OECD we held our own in 2003 and also in 2004 and remained in 24th place.

Comreg is fully vindicated in its stance and in the sweep of its regulatory vision by the recently released 2005 figures . Despite ferocious competition from our peers , namely the Czechs , Poles and Hungarians, we have moved up a place to 23rd and are now in a better position than our peers to close the gap between ourselves and New Zealand who occupy 22nd place at present .

Comreg anticipates that we will approach the top 20 by 2010, a dramatic improvement on our 2001 position . Comreg will continue its work to realise our ambition as a technologically advanced nation to be close to seeing ourselves in the top 20 developed countries by around 2010 or so.

Signed Buttsy
The Department of Truth
April 2006

damien

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2006/0413/4282938561BZEDMEGSHREVEOCED.html

Broadband usage saw only a mild increase last year according to a recently updated Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report.

Among 30 states, the Republic was ranked 23rd with more than 270,000 broadband users or 6.7 subscribers per 100 inhabitants by the end of December 2005. That figure was more than double the number of subscribers in 2004.

Despite the increase in broadband users, the State's net increase of new subscribers fell behind 18 other states. Ireland added 3.29 subscribers per 100 people compared to the OECD average of 3.26 new customers during 2005.

Iceland, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands and Australia saw the largest subscriber growth. Each had an increase of more than six subscribers per 100 people.

According to Damien Mulley, chairman of IrelandOffline, an internet consumer advocacy group, the report showed the Republic was still falling behind.

There's also a piece on page 3 of the Irish Examiner but the online version of it appears to be completely messed up and nothing like the print version.

damien

By the by, this is the Buttsy that the Sponge refers to so often: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Butts

Just in case anyone had any doubts