Comments on: Iceland, Broadband’s New King

By: Fiber Broadband Big in Japan & Korea - GigaOM

Fiber Broadband Big in Japan & Korea - GigaOM — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:34:13 +0000

[...] April 2006: Iceland, Broadband’s New King [...]

By: The Innovation Insider » 2006 » April » 12

The Innovation Insider » 2006 » April » 12 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:39:07 +0000

[...] 12.19 million and Iceland – tiny but beautiful Iceland – only has 78,000+ broadband subscribers. As GigaOm points out, though, South Korea appears to be moving away from a reliance on cable and DSL [...]

By: cakes

cakes — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:58:15 +0000

I would love to see stats for average speed. What qualifies for Broadband in the U.S. might not make the grade elsewhere.

By: Nyquist Capital

Nyquist Capital — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:35:11 +0000

Broadband Gap = Economic Substitution

The OECD released updated broadband statistics yesterday. The US is ranked 12th. Included is some historical trend data that I think sheds some light on why a broadband ‘gap’ exists between the US and the rest of the world. I don’t be…

By: Vincent Dekker

Vincent Dekker — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:42:30 +0000

What has the small size of Iceland got to do with it, I wonder. Iceland is about as large/small as The Netherlands, but has only some 250.000 people living there, where The Netherlands have 64 times as many (some 16 million). Iceland has a lot of lava, which makes digging ducts kind of hard, compared to the Dutch sand. Still Iceland per capita has more broadband and more fiber-to-the-home connections then The Netherlands. Apparrently people in Iceland think being a frontrunner is worth the effort. That’s what makes a country different, not the size of it. Vincent Dekker in The Netherlands

By: Andrew Schmitt

Andrew Schmitt — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:44:48 +0000

OK! Let the USA Telecom bashing begin! We need to be more like Iceland!

By: Dobes

Dobes — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:16:01 +0000

I wish Aussie would get up there too! Broadband here sucks!

By: Renai LeMay

Renai LeMay — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:13:47 +0000

Now if only Australia could get up there…but we don't seem to be doing too badly.

"The strongest per-capita subscriber growth came from Iceland, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands and Australia. Each country added more than 6 subscribers per 100 inhabitants during 2005."

Renai LeMay ZDNet Australia

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:27:20 +0000

actually it is 50% of online households are online according to forrester. i think i agree, it is going to be tough to get the overall penetration up by the sheer size of the country.

By: TN

TN — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:18:09 +0000

How can the OECD say that 17% of US Internet users are on broadband, but Forrester (in the previous story) say that over 50% of households are on broadband?

Someone seems to be mis-stating the numbers.

By: Zee

Zee — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:16:06 +0000

America is far too big in area to be number one in the percentage of people who have broadband.

By: Saul Weiner

Saul Weiner — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:13:45 +0000

What about China ? (even they are not be part of the OECD). Rumor has it that they may have over 100 million users (although I don’t know if they’re all broadband)