Comments on: Fiber Broadband Big in Japan & Korea

By: Sul-coreanos vítimas da resposta gradual contra os downloads ilegais | Remixtures

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:02:19 +0000

[...] de banda larga no mundo (3o por cento das ligações à Internet segundo a OCDE) e em que cerca de 39 por cento das ligações de banda larga já usam fibra óptica (ceca de 12,2 por 100 [...]

By: The Ugly Truth About Broadband: Upload Speeds

The Ugly Truth About Broadband: Upload Speeds — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:02:02 +0000

[...] speedy connections made me jealous. I was envious of all the Free.fr customers in France. I was mad about 50 Mbps connections in Japan and Scandinavia. Why can’t we have those speeds in the U.S., I often [...]

By: » Countries With Maximum Number of Fibre Broadband Connections TechCrunchies - Internet Statistics, Numbers and figures

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:03:15 +0000

[...] are the most popular ways to connect to the Internet in the Orient. Here is the rank of the top ten countries with fibre broadband [...]

By: DSL Still Dominates The Globe - Though fiber is on the march, particularly in Japan, South Korea | Telecom News

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:00:40 +0000

[...] – Though fiber is on the march, particularly in Japan, South Korea October 27, 08 by admin GigaOM points to new data from the OECD that states fiber is now the leading connectivity option in both [...]

By: TPile » Blog Archive » DSL Still Dominates The Globe - Though fiber is on the march, particularly in Japan, South Korea

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:21:36 +0000

[...] GigaOM points to new data from the OECD that states fiber is now the leading connectivity option in both Japan and South Korea. Around 45 percent of connections in Japan use fiber to the home, while in South Korea that number drops to around 39 percent. DSL remains the most popular technology in thirty OECD countries, with a 60% global share of the broadband pie. Fiber meanwhile accounts for about 9% of the 251 million subscribers tracked by the OECD. The OECD’s latest data keeps the U.S. in first place in terms of total subscribers, with 75 million.read comment(s) [...]

By: DSL Still Dominates The Globe - Though fiber is on the march, particularly in Japan, South Korea | Voip Blog

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:17:53 +0000

By: DSL Still Dominates The Globe - Though fiber is on the march, particularly in Japan, South Korea | Telecom News

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:01:24 +0000

[...] – Though fiber is on the march, particularly in Japan, South Korea October 26, 08 by admin GigaOM points to new data from the OECD that states fiber is now the leading connectivity option in both [...]

By: More HD, More Fiber, More MoCA, More DOCSIS 3.0… « Media Experiences 2 Go

More HD, More Fiber, More MoCA, More DOCSIS 3.0… « Media Experiences 2 Go — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:04:31 +0000

[...] of broadband access technologies around the world, according to the latest report from the OECD (via GigaOM). Both Japan and Korea have more fiber-based broadband connections than anything else, 45% and 39% [...]

By: Finnsense

Finnsense — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:40:54 +0000

"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. "

This is an odd comment. You don't achieve higher penetration rates proportional to your population by having a smaller population. There are only so many telecom engineers and so on. Perhaps what you mean is that it's easier for densely populated countries to achieve a high penetration rate than for sparsely populated countries. That's true, but then one wonders why you cite Japan and South Korea as being victims of this metric - since both countries are very densely populated. Also, the Nordics are more sparsely populated than the US.

Thinking about it, I can't think of any way that metric is "unfair" to the US. Simply put, the US just hasn't invested as much or as wisely as many other countries in their broadband infrastructure.