[LINK] ACCC: Broadband Take-Up Catch-Up

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

Roger,

> [Paul Budde commented in the AFR that we'd been 4 years behind, but 
> that the [enforced] broadband price cuts of March 2004 have had the 
> result that we might catch back up to our OECD peers in two years's 
> time.  But I suspect we're still way behind leading countries in MB 
> download per person]

An interesting remark. If we were near comparable countries in take-up but
lagging in "download per person" would this indicate:
- lower utility to the user
- expensive downloads
- different pricing structures
- something else?

Or to put it another way: what's the "objective" value of a comparative 
measure?
If Australians were "efficient" users of the Internet, is that a bad thing?

The Australian Bureau of Stats' "Household Internet in Australia" 
recently gave
a downloads-per-person number ... I think it's in the 8153 series research but
may be wrong ...

Cheers,
Richard Chirgwin

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