{"id":1232,"date":"2006-10-15T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:47:10","slug":"canadian-broadband-first-in-g7-9th-in-oecd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1232","title":{"rendered":"Canadian broadband: first in G7; 9th in OECD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OECD has released its most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/sti\/ict\/broadband\">broadband penetration statistics<\/a>. Denmark, with 29.3 broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants, is now number 1 ahead of Netherlands (28.8), Iceland (27.3), Korea (26.4) and Switzerland (26.2). Rounding out the top 10 are Finland (25.0), Norway (24.6), Sweden (22.7), Canada (22.4) and the UK (19.4).<\/p>\n<p>The US ranks 12 at 19.2 subscribers per 100 inhabitants, behind Belgium (19.3) at number 11. Despite leading the OECD in fibre based broadband, Japan ranks 13th overall in broadband penetration.<\/p>\n<p>Among the OECD top 30 nations, only Canada and the US have more cable broadband subscribers than DSL. Canada appears to be the top G7 country.<\/p>\n<p>What factors put Canada ahead of its G7 peers? Is government intervention required to increase broadband penetration beyond that being achieved through market forces?<\/p>\n<p>Wondering if Japan is demonstrating that you can lead a horse to Perrier, but you can&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OECD has released its most recent broadband penetration statistics. Denmark, with 29.3 broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants, is now number 1 ahead of Netherlands (28.8), Iceland (27.3), Korea (26.4) and Switzerland (26.2). Rounding out the top 10 are Finland (25.0), Norway (24.6), Sweden (22.7), Canada (22.4) and the UK (19.4). The US ranks 12 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1232\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canadian broadband: first in G7; 9th in OECD<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Canadian broadband: first in G7; 9th in OECD &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The OECD has released its most recent broadband penetration statistics. 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