21 in OECD ranking
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Posted Tue 24 April 2007 @ 11:55 a.m. by Sarah Putt
New Zealand is now ranked 21st in the OECD for broadband subscribers – up one place from last year. This equates to 14 subscribers per 100 inhabitants for the year ending December 2006.
By climbing from 8.1 to 14 subscribers in a year NZ is among four countries to have shown the strongest per-capita subscriber growth. Along with Denmark, the Netherlands and Ireland, NZ added more than 5.8 subscribers.
But despite strong growth, this country still only has less than half the number of the subscribers compared to those at that the top the table – Denmark is in the lead with 31.9 subscribers and the Netherlands is in second place with 31.8.
Another notable trend is the addition of a new category to the OECD’s league table – Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) and Fibre-to-the Building (FTTB). These are high-speed networks capable of achieving more than 50 Mbps, which accounted for 7% of all OECD broadband connections. Korea (7 fibre-based connections per 100 inhabitants) and Japan (6.2 fibre-based connections) are leading the way with a corresponding fall in ADSL subscriptions reported in these countries.
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