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I keep hearing voices<\/a> say that Canadians are paying more and receiving lower speeds than our peers in the OECD. I keep saying that the data is biased. A couple leading academic institutions cite OECD statistics in their reports – meaning their studies are equally biased. <\/p>\n

How many of the critics have actually looked at the data that the OECD used [ xls<\/a>, 286KB]? <\/p>\n

Indulge me, please. <\/p>\n

Download the spreadsheet and look at the tab called “BBPricing”. Look through the worksheet and you will see the basis of the speed and pricing and price per megabit that keeps getting quoted. Canada appears on lines 117-133 of the worksheet – line 133 is the arithmetic average of the 16 lines above it. It is as simple as that. <\/p>\n

I want you to take a little time to actually go through these numbers, because I think that anyone who actually looks at the table will see the same problems that we have with the data. <\/p>\n

Take some time to get a really good look at how the OECD numbers were developed, because these are at the core of the Oxford and Harvard studies. <\/p>\n

Anyone wonder why Australia has 71 samples of data – some duplicates – and Canada has just 16? Why little Dansk Bredb\u00e5nd (less than 100,000 subscribers in Denmark) merits 9 samples from their offerings – more than Bell Canada’s 8 and more than double the representation from Rogers and Shaw). The OECD liked Dansk Bredb\u00e5nd enough to include duplication of 3 of its offers, thereby over-weighting the highest speeds.<\/p>\n

Videotron’s high speed services were ignored by OECD, apparently because<\/a> it isn’t one of the top 3 providers in Canada. So, no coverage of TELUS, Bell Aliant, Cogeco or Novus either. <\/p>\n

The OECD didn’t limit its review of other countries to only 3 service providers. For example, 5 providers were sampled in Ireland; 4 in Iceland; 4 in France; 4 in Japan; 4 in Netherlands; 5 in Sweden; 6 in Spain; 4 in Portugal; 4 in the Slovak Republic; 5 in the US. Why only 3 from Canada?<\/p>\n

Governments can’t set a broadband policy based on faulty data. <\/p>\n

Why isn’t the OECD reporting of Canada more complete? That is a question that politicians should be asking<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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