Global Broadband Quality Study

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Nederland staat gemiddeld op de 6e plaats, en binnen Nederland is het
Rotterdam die de beste internet service heeft.
Buiten de grote steden staat Nederland op de 4e plaats, na Japan,
Zuid-Korea en Zweden.

Groet / Cees

PS. E.e.a. op basis van metingen via http://www.speedtest.net/

http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/NR/rdonlyres/99AAE7AC-C951-42CB-8F62-D43F51CEDE87/0/BroadbandQualityStudy2009PressPresentationfinal.pdf

1 South Korea
2 Japan
3 Hong Kong
4 Sweden
5 Switserland
6 Netherlands
7 Singapore
8 Luxembourg
9 Denmark
10 Norway

    * South Korea rose just above last year's broadband quality leader
Japan with a 72% improvement in its Broadband Quality Score (BQS).
This improvement has been driven by continuous efforts by the
government to strengthen the country’s position as one of the world’s
ICT leaders. Combined with higher broadband penetration, South Korea
rises above Japan in the global Broadband Leadership rankings.
    * Japan stands out as having the cities with the highest BQS in the
world, with Yokohama and Nagoya leading the BQS rankings and Sapporo
not far behind.
    * Sweden has the highest quality broadband in Europe. It is rapidly
catching up with Japan and South Korea as its BQS improves 38% from
2008. Sweden is the most successful country in closing the broadband
quality gap with residents outside the most populated cities enjoying
better quality than those in the cities.
    * Lithuania, Bulgaria and Latvia come just behind Sweden in quality
boosted by recent city-based fibre rollouts and cable improvements but
low broadband penetration means these countries have yet to break into
the broadband leaders’ category.
    * 39 countries have a BQS above the threshold required to deliver a
consistent quality of experience for the most common web applications
today, such as social networking, streaming low-definition video, web
communications and sharing small files such as photos and music.
    * Nine countries, South Korea, Japan, Sweden, Lithuania, Bulgaria,
Latvia, The Netherlands, Denmark and Romania, were found to have the
broadband quality required for future web applications, such as high
definition Internet TV viewing and high-quality video communications
(such as home telepresence) that will become mainstream in the next 3
to 5 years. In 2008, only Japan exceeded this threshold.
    * The research compares countries according to their stage of economic
development :

    - Amongst the developed, innovation-driven economies, South Korea
achieved the greatest improvement in broadband quality over the past
year with a 73% increase in BQS. Sweden, the USA and the Czech
Republic also saw significant above average improvements.

    - Amongst efficiency-driven economies, Bulgaria topped the most
improved list with a 57% increase in BQS from 2009. Lithuania, Romania
and Latvia also achieved above average improvements.

    - Amongst factor-driven economies, Kenya actually trebled its BQS but
the overall score for Kenya remains well below the threshold required
for today’s applications. Vietnam and Qatar followed Kenya as having
made the most progress in broadband quality for countries in this
stage of economic development.

    * The cities with the highest BQS of all the countries in the study were:

1 Yokohama BQS 85
...
11 Rotterdam BQS 55
...

    * The research team compared the difference between the BQS in the
most populated cities with the BQS in the rest of the country.
Although a digital quality divide was found in the majority of
countries, 13 countries showed significant differences in BQS between
its major cities and the rest of the country. Lithuania, Russia and
Latvia had the biggest digital quality divide, while rural residents
in Sweden, United Arab Emirates and Iceland enjoyed similar, if not
slightly higher quality broadband services than their city
counterparts.
    * The country with the highest broadband quality outside of its major
cities was Japan, followed by Korea and Sweden.
    * The study also included data on the quality of mobile broadband
services for the first time. On average, mobile devices connecting to
WiFi services meet the broadband quality threshold required for
today’s mobile Internet applications. The average BQS of 3G and 3G+
technologies do not currently meet the threshold due to low upload
throughput.

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