A number of reports were released in the past week that are worth collecting for future analysis.
- Last week, the International Telecommunications Union released its latest edition of Measuring the Information Society (2013). The report, less Annex 4 (Statistical tables of prices used to compute the ICT Price Basket), is available as an 8.5MB pdf. Be sure to watch for simplistic analysis that ignores examination of source data!
- Today, Akamai released its Second Quarter 2013 State of the Internet report (4.8MB pdf) and Executive Summary (2.7MB pdf). Among other information, it confirms the error in the CRTC’s Communications Monitoring Report that was highlighted in this blog a few weeks ago.
- Also today, as reported in the mainstream media, we saw PCMag.com release its test of US and Canadian wireless networks.
Urban Canadians can get online fast, often at speeds that would make south-of-the-border Americans green with envy.
The peak speeds delivered by the big three carrier’s new LTE networks are nothing short of breathtaking. We saw a 92Mbps download on Rogers’ 2600MHz LTE network in Vancouver, the highest result we’ve seen anywhere in four years of testing in North America.