One of my blog posts from last week, about The broadband numbers racket, was picked up by Circle ID, an website with news and information about developments affecting internet and infrastructure. There was a comment posted yesterday that included:
It seems like all these global broadband “ranking” evaluations are as nebulous as the college football BCS rankings. Worse actually.
My concern is that not enough scrutiny has been given to the rankings produced by reputable organizations perhaps because of a mistaken belief that such groups could not have issued a flawed report.
It is time for the media and reputable commentators to recognize that the OECD’s broadband rankings report had methodology problems and cannot be relied upon.