Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Japan

A story on Press Esc (Community Based Reporting) has details comparing High Speed Internet in various countries. Japan tops the list at 61 Mbps with Korea second at 45 Mbs. Canada is way down the list at 7 Mbps, and the US lags way back at 1.9 Mbps. Not sure what New Zealand’s rate is - maybe bitshifter can enlighten us?

Take up rates for high speed internet are also interesting. Here, iirc Korea leads the way, with Japan second. Dial up modem connections here in Japan are about as common as dial telephones.

Here is an extract from the US high-speed Internet is slow article:

The average broadband download speed in the US is only 1.9 megabits per second, compared to 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in Sweden, 17 Mpbs in France, and 7 Mbps in Canada, according to the Communication Workers of America.

CWA President Larry Cohen testified before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, in support of a discussion draft of the Broadband Census of America Act.

“Good data is the foundation of good policy,” Cohen said. “We desperately need a national Internet policy to reverse the fact that our nation – the country that invented the Internet – has fallen to 16th in the world in broadband adoption.”

“Equally disturbing, Americans pay more for slower connection speeds than people in many other countries,” he added.

According to statistics provided by CWA 80 percent of households in Japan can connect to a fiber network at a speed of 100 megabits per second. This is 30 times the average speed of a US cable modem or DSL connection, at roughly the same cost.

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