Latest Broadband Stats
The OECD has released it’s latest broadband stats. Some good news for New Zealand as we have gone up one further place to 20th. We were in 22nd for many years. We now have 683,500 broadband connections which is a rate of 16.5 per 100 households. However the OECD average is 18.8 and the median is 21.7. So some way still to go.
Our increase over the last year has been 4.94 per 100 homes which is the 9th highest (out of 30) growth rate. That’s pretty good – we are catching up.
Fibre now represents 8% of all OECD broadband connections, and 36% of Japan’s, plus 31% of Korea’s. Serious fibre rollout is the future. Also Sweden has 16% fibre, Sloval Republic 16%, Denmark 9%.
Also get this – the price of fibe per MB/s of speed is:
- DSL: USD 19.21
- Cable: USD 18.96
- Fiber to the home/building: USD3.75
- Wireless: USD 18.69
The average download speed in the OECD is 13.7 Mb/s. Sob.
Japan has the fastest speed – 93 Mb/s available. The average fibre speed is 77.1 Mb/s.
We are one of 20 countries with data caps, but only one of four countries which has every single package on offer data capped. The average data cap is 21GB in the OECD.
Some quite fascinating other data in the OECD stats. They even have a bot infection rate per 100broadband subscribers. Of 36 countries, we are 25th with a 1.1% rate. Poland has 6.8% infection, France 2.9%, Australia 1.7%.