[LINK] Australia - ISP, Internet & Broadband - Statistics

[Richard Chirgwin]

Bernard,

Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> There is a report in today's printed SMH based upon Paul Budde's research paper "Australia - ISP, Internet & Broadband - Statistics"
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> http://www.budde.com.au/Reports/Contents/Australia-ISP-Internet-Broadband-Statistics-1487.html
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> I can't find the article on the SMH web site, however I did remember the two tables that are in the paper.
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> They put Australia at the bottom of the list for average access speed (Japan was top with 61MB/s, Australia bottom at <1MB/s)
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I would want to see a very detailed explanation of how the average 
access speed is derived, and don't have time right now to read 
methodologies.

However, if I take the OECD data as moderately accurate, Japan's profile 
looks like this:
DSL = 55% of subs
Cable = 14% of subs
Fibre = 31% of subs

If DSL is not capable of producing 61 Mbps then Japan can't have an 
average access speed of 61 Mbps.
> However, Australia was the second most expensive.
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Quite possibly, depending on what countries we are compared to. But: in 
what way is the price of a consumer product the responsibility of 
government (except that what we all really want is a kind of 
agrarian-socialism-on-the-Internet under which we all get the world's 
fastest broadband for free)?
> Does anyone remember the phrase "the clever country"? It seems we have gone even further backwards since Graeme Philipson wrote "Farewell to the clever country" in March 8, 2005. His last line was "It is a measure of how unclever we have become that the phrase is nowadays only ever used in an ironic sense."
> http://www.smh.com.au/news/Perspectives/Farewell-to-the-clever-country/2005/03/07/1110160730065.html
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> Stilgherrian asked what questions could be put to Helen Coonan and Stephen Conroy on Friday. How about:
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> What will the major parties do to:
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> a) address Australia's woeful broadband infrastructure performance
>   
Why is this the responsibility of government? What real, science-based 
rather than faith-based evidence demonstrates that government action on 
broadband justifies the taxes spent?

RC
> b) stop the dumbing down of Australia
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> I think I'll go and have a lie down now. I obviously have too much time on my hands.
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