Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development broadband p...
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development broadband penetration data closely track those the European Commission (EC) cites, a spokesman for Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding said Thursday. OECD’s publication this week of its latest rankings has the…
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U.S. in 15th place, with EU members Denmark and the Netherlands in the lead. The EC believes OECD subscriber and penetration numbers to be “a very useful tool” with which to compare broadband markets’ competitiveness using a common methodology, and largely track with a March EC report on its e-communications regulatory regime’s effectiveness, the spokesman said. The results varied slightly, he said. Finland, Portugal and Slovakia were ranked lower by the OECD, with Luxembourg and Ireland higher, perhaps due to slight differences in population data used to calculate average broadband penetration, data adjustments by national regulators or simply because the EC publishes data provided and confirmed by national regulators only, whereas the OECD combines information sourced from national authorities with its estimates, the spokesman said. The OECD method also differs slightly on broadband speed, the spokesman said. The EC defines broadband as connections with a transmission capacity equal to or over 144 kbps, while the OECD threshold is set 256 kbps, he said.