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Fiber Broadband Big in Japan & Korea

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  • 26-10-2008 12:03pm
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    bealtine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭


    http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2008/10/24/24gigaom-fiber-broadband-big-in-japan-korea-26404.html

    By OM MALIK, GigaOm
    Published: October 24, 2008

    In Japan and South Korea, fiber-based consumer broadband connections now represent the most popular Internet access technology, ahead of DSL and cable, according to a report issued by OECD earlier today. Around 45 percent?of connections in Japan use fiber, while in Korea that number is around 39 percent –?about 12.2 per 100 inhabitants.

    In 30 OECD countries, DSL is still the most popular technology, with a 60 percent?market share, but fiber is growing fast and now accounts for about 9 percent?(or roughly 23 million) of the total 251 million broadband subscribers in OCED countries at the end of June 2008. Nineteen percent?and 18 percent?of subscribers in Sweden and Slovak Republic get access via broadband. In Denmark and Norway, 9 and 8 percent of connections are over fiber, respectively.

    Total number of Fiber-LAN connections (Millions)

    In comparison, about 3 percent?of U.S. subscribers get their broadband via fiber, many of them customers of Verizon. With more than?75 million broadband subscribers, the U.S. still remains the largest broadband country. The OECD has seen a 14 percent?gain in the total number of broadband subscribers since it issued a report in 2007.

    If you use the broadband-subscribers-per-100-inhabitants metric, more popularly known as broadband penetration, then Denmark leads the rankings with 36.7, followed by Netherlands (35.5), Norway (33.4), Switzerland (32.7), Iceland (32.2), and Sweden (32.3). The broadband penetration number is a bit unfair, because many of the OECD countries are small and have much fewer total number of connections in comparison to larger markets and, as a result, achieve higher penetration rates more easily.?

    For instance, South Korea (31.2), U.S. (25) and Japan (23) rank at 7, 15, and 17 respectively, even though they have many more broadband connections than the top-ranked countries by penetration. (see chart)


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    bealtine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭bealtine


    I love it, the OECD is talking about fiber.
    Here we are still getting "upto" 3M as a standard connection to most homes within DSL enabled areas.
    An awful lot of DSL connections here struggle to get 1M...
    All this seems to shows, in my opinion, is the total lack of investment in our "last mile" infrastructure over the last
    20 years.

    <sigh>


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