Canadian broadband speed ‘lousy’
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Research teams from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and the University of Oviedo’s Department of Applied Economics (supported by Cisco) have released a new study on global broadband quality.
Researchers analyzed approximately 24 million broadband speed test records from Speedtest.net from May to July of this year.
The Canadian rankings are lousy given that the country aspires to be viewed as a global leader.
Canada ranks:
- 17th for broadband leadership (which combines speed and access)
- 30th for broadband quality (down from 26th in 2008)
- 30th for download speeds
- 31st for upload speeds
- 25th for broadband quality as measured by stage of economic development
The speeds in countries such as Korea, Japan, and Sweden far surpass Canada, as they are countries deemed “ready for tomorrow.”
Michael Geist - Michael Geist’s Blog
[Geist is the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. He can be reached by email at mgeist @ uottawa dot ca]
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