Just an interesting visualization of the broadband situation out there. Statistics get a bad rap, probably because they’re always in spreadsheet form when they should be in an infographic. Click away for the full-size version.
Uhhhh, Japan for the win. [via Reddit]
Thats what she said.
Pity the data it’s based on is bullshit and doesn’t take into count hugely relevant factors such as capping, upload, QoS, rural vs. metropolitan, penetration e.t.c.
If the data were correct, than among many other things, Japan would have lower penetration and slightly higher price and would 2nd overall, Korea has 90+% penetration. Finland’s average speed isnt even over 10mbit let alone 20mbit. Romania would easily be in the top ten with it’s huge number of 100mbit connections for the home. The UK would be higher and the US and Canada would be a lot lower.
Yeah I’ve heard that of Romania, and Korea really should be top of the chart. I wonder if they were only counting urban or semi-urban areas or something?
The chart’s really for a sort of general idea. If people are interested in the real statistics, they can hit em up (got a link?)
I don’t understand the stats.
6.40$ for a 7mbps connection in Canada? You’re kidding right?
I’m probably not ready that right tho. lol
no, it’s $6.40 per 1mbps per month, and the 7mbps indicates the country’s average speed.
The US is has SLOWEST average internet connection speed mapped on the world map! Out of the top 20 countries, they are #15. The US invented the internet, it should at least have the fastest connection speeds. What’s up with this?
QuickSiR: It’s price per Mbps. So in the US, supposedly 3 Mbps would cost you $9.99. The prices are probably based on larger wholesale prices.
Have you driven across the US recently? The majority of the US population live in and around small towns. Not clumped together in cities.
And we don’t have a country that can be traversed in a single day by car or rail.
If 90% of the US population lived on the east coast like something out of a Gibson novel, then we would have a 90% penetration rate with 100Mbps speeds.
Rather confusing map and metrics. Shows that the cost in the US and Australia is comparable, which is plainly not true. Aussie net is slow, expensive, often charged per hour, and capped. It’s a recognized national problem there. As noted by newmi, the metrics used is not very useful.
Jakarta Indonesia. 1.5Mbps all you can eat plan, $60 a month from the so-called “FastNet” provider. When it’s working I really only get about 150kbps. So that’s $400 USD per MB. Probably the highest in the World save some suffering countries in Africa perhaps.
No way to change; there are only slower and/or more expensive “competitors”, or low caps. They Really put it to you if you exceed the monthly cap. No wonder this country is falling behind the rest of Asia.
Yeah, I want to complain about the Australia rating as well ;)
“We” dont even have a Flatrate here and all the plans that claim “unlimited usage” get slowed to 64k(!) after a fairly low amount, depending on what your plan is.
So no, that graph is not entirely representative and I cant truly believe all values.
No, it’s to be taken with a grain of salt. Australia isn’t ranked very high I notice! They aren’t even marked on the map. what’s up with that?