Volunteers wanted for Creating OECD Broadband Price Table

damien

Iceland:

http://www.siminn.is/control/index?pid=32632
3.820kr for ADSL 1000
€48

(Just remember a can of coke in Iceland is €3 and a pint is €8 )

damien

http://www.dslturk.com/
€34.37
512k/128k

damien

Japan: http://www.bbapply.com/


50 Mbps Download & 3 Mbps Upload
Includes BBPhone, Yahoo's IP phone service
€30 per month

damien

More from Iceland. Thanks to theTarget

OgVodafone

It is free to download within iceland, but they charge 2,49kr for every extra MB downloaded (up to price guarantee). This price guarantee they've got is odd. They say you never pay for more than 2GB foreign downloading in 1mb/s, 2mb/s and 3mb/s. Sundays are "days off", you can get 500 MB extra download every sunday (or 500 mbs for the sum of all mondays in a month.. they're not clear on which it is).

Speed up to - Speed from - Download - Price - Max Price you'll have to pay

1 Mb/s - 512 Kb/s - 100 MB - €48 - €108.
1 Mb/s - 512 Kb/s - 1 GB - €64 - €96.
1 Mb/s - 512 Kb/s - 2 GB - €76 - €76.
2 Mb/s - 512 Kb/s - 100 MB - €61 - €121.
2 Mb/s - 512 Kb/s - 1 GB - €76 - €108.
2 Mb/s - 512 Kb/s - 2 GB - €89 - €89
3 Mb/s - 832 Kb/s - 100 MB - €68 - €129.
3 Mb/s - 832 Kb/s - 1 GB - €84 - €116.
3 Mb/s - 832 Kb/s - 2 GB - €97 - €97
6 Mb/s - 832 Kb/s - 100 MB - €92 - Does not apply
6 Mb/s - 832 Kb/s - 1 GB - €108 - Does not apply
6 Mb/s - 832 Kb/s - 2 GB - €121 - Does not apply
6 Mb/s - 832 Kb/s - 4 GB - €147 - Does not apply
6 Mb/s - 832 Kb/s - 6 GB - €172 - Does not apply
6 Mb/s - 832 Kb/s - 10 GB - €232 - Does not apply

Oh and in the base subscription i mentioned earlier, with speed of 256kb/s to 512kb/s, no foreign download and monthly price of 2990 kr. has a price of 4,99 kr for every "extra" MB downloaded from a foreign source.

I'm not completely clear on what the "Speed up to" and "Speed from" are.


Siminn

(Free download within Iceland too.)

ADSL 1000
100MB Transfer - €48
750MB Transfer - €59
2GB Transfer - €78
4GB Transfer - €81

ADSL 2000
100MB Transfer - €60
750MB Transfer - €71
2GB Transfer - €90
4GB Transfer - €94

ADSL 3000
100MB Transfer - €73
750MB Transfer - €84
2GB Transfer - €103
4GB Transfer - €106

ISDN (Just as info I guess...)
200MB Transfer - €17
850MB Transfer - €35


Hive
Free setup and connection.
4Mb connection - 2GB transfer for €50
Unlimited - inside and outside Iceland.

damien

We're getting good feedback from people who saw our price table and are sending us links to other providers who offer other entry level packages. Please keep adding to this list as we are going to publish updates every quarter now. It's been said we're cherry picking the cheapest providers so here are other providers including incumbents. Still way cheaper you'll note.

Thrunet:
http://english.thrunet.com/service/multi_cable.asp
Cable Operator in South Korea.
€31.97

DSL: http://english.thrunet.com/service/multi_adsl.asp
€24.18

TUT: http://english.thrunet.com/service/multi_tut.asp
€24.44

Hanaro:
http://www.hanaro.com/eng/iproduct/vne_vlite.asp
31,660 Won (€23.7956) per month for VDSL/XDSL

Korea Telecom:
http://www.letskt.com/en/Product/Service_contents.jsp?mn=1110&scode=1110&sname=Megapass%20ADSL
24.8129 for 4Mbps/ 640Kbps

or for anyone in Apt complexes you can get 100Mbps/100Mbps for €25.71

*Edit*
Remove €4 a month as all prices included equipment rental, which you apparently don't have to take. You can use your own.


Cheaper Japanese packages on the way.

AndrewMc

For the next list could line rental be included as another column or something? I know you don't want to clutter the list, but it'd be nice to remind the media we really are getting screwed on the rental as well.

cgarvey

I 2nd that!

damien

Drapper ^^^^ I posted some of them a few posts up on this page.

damien

Got sent this by email about Japan:

As you mentioned in your article, DSL in japan is an old technology that is no
longer the option of choice (I would go for fibre).

Anyway, even sticking with DSL, and looking at the options available from the
Japanese equivalent of eircom - NTT , you can get a dsl service
http://flets.com/adsl/index.html
with Download - 47Mbps, Upload 5Mbps, including line rental &
VAT for 3738yen = 27.08 euros

This is much more bandwidth & still cheaper than the 30 euro price you have
listed for Japan.

Note that NTT is the ex state monopoly (like eircom) is usually the most
expensive supplier, and most people would not be going for the DSL service
anyway since the FTTH solution provides 100Mbps up and down for about 3150yen
for those living in apartments. And then if you choose a carrier other than
NTT of course both packages would be far cheaper.

eircomtribunal

damien.m wrote:

Got sent this by email about Japan:

Damien, could you ask your Japanese contact for an explanation why Japan ranks as the most expensive country in some of the EC pricing tables (where they sometimes add US and Japan for reasons of comparison)?

For example here or here or here.

P.