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  • 04-12-2007 3:28pm
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    bealtine
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    http://www.oecd.org/document/54/0,3343,en_2649_33703_38690102_1_1_1_1,00.html


    Lots of statistics here, Yay we are ahead of Turkey and Mexico!!!
    22nd out of 30, up one place from last year, we are nearing the nearly EU average.
    It is so gratifying to see we set our aim so low and then miss the target utterly.

    2a. Households with broadband access, 2000-06 (1). Percentage of all households.
    EU25 31.7
    Ireland 13.1

    Thats nowhere near the EU average...


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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Its out of date, this new EU survey published today shows we are still sh1te all the same

    Anyway, lets look at the facts .

    Last week the CSO published their ICT Ireland scorecard which seemed to show things were improving in Ireland. The survey was carried out earlier this year . Summary Here

    http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/industry/current/iss.pdf

    The chief of eBay Ireland lambasted the government for its incompetence about the same time. The key points of the survey are

    1. 65% of Irish Homes have a computer now. (It was 56% in the Census a year before) . These ICT Ireland surveys are pretty spot on based on my observation over the years.

    2. 57% of Irish homes access the Internet ( almost 87% of homes with a computer)

    3. HOWEVER only 31% of homes have BB although this was up from 13% a year before .


    Then the EU went and pissed on our smug and irrelevant little parade today. They published the EU wide figures which contain the CSO data . The EU survey is here

    http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-QA-07-023/EN/KS-QA-07-023-EN.PDF

    While Ireland is

    1. Above the EU average for computer ownership ( it has been for a number of years but thats not in this survey)

    A figure of 56% was the census 2006 total while a separate EU report ( page 68 of 188) show that the EU average was 54% in late 2006 but errs on Ireland , so we beat that EU average.

    2. Above the EU average for Internet use by homes IE 57% EU 54% according to todays survery

    HOWEVER

    3. Ireland is WAY below the EU average for Broadband in the home, a lethal combination of outrageous costs and lack of availability IE31% EU42%

    To make things worse we are behind

    Estonia, Latvia , Lithuania , Hungary and Slovenia

    BARELY AHEAD OF

    Poland , Slovakia and the Czech Republic

    As for the countries we pretend to emulate, you know the sophisticates of the Developed World with its knowledge economy and stuff. Don't make me fuggin laugh :(

    I will shorten this list by ONLY including countries which have TWICE as many BB enabled homes as Ireland ( Ie 62% or more. They are

    Holland, Sweden , Iceland , Norway , Denmark .


    There are plenty with just under twice as many :(


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