ECTA Regulatory Scorecard for 2005 is out

damien

http://www.ectaportal.com/extranet/upload/File/Annual%20Regulatory%20Reports/2005/Regulatory%20Review%202005.pdf

Read and find the "best" bits.

Sponge Bob

The name of the chairperson is good !

damien

and also here is the latest broadband report:

http://www.ectaportal.com/en/news_item492.html



Ireland is well on target for Minister Dempsey's Target for being second last in Europe. In fact, holiday time! We're there already! We have consistently beaten the rest of Europe (apart from Greece) at bucking the growth trends.

Sponge Bob

found this bit

http://www.ectaportal.com/en/news_item.php?id=492

contains a table of old member states and new member states (15+10)

comments on new states

Broadband study highlights two-speed Europe

New member states slow in applying broadband access measures to support competition

New member states, which have yet to apply effective access measures, are falling behind in broadband adoption creating a two-speed Europe, the latest Broadband Scorecard shows. ECTA’s quarterly report, which tracks broadband competition and take-up across the EU, finds that in January 2006 broadband take-up was just 2.4% in Slovakia and 2.6% in Poland compared with 13.3% in Estonia and 12.8% in Malta – the highest performing of the new member states.

Here are the 10 'poor' countries ranked in descending order in their 'own' table , the not effective ones ya know.



We rank just above Latvia 5.9% and Hungary 6.1% with 6.7%

LITHUANIA has passed us now 6.8% but thank **** the Greeks are still there at 1.5% to look worser than we are, we should send Dempsey off to a long conference in Greece starting now and lasting until after the next election .

Full stats here for 25 countries .

http://www.ectaportal.com/en/upload/File/Broadband%20Scorecards/Q405/Broadband%20Scorecard%20Q405.xls

damien

Going through the full rankings, we're 18th.

Sponge Bob

19 out of 25 I make it, ahead of greece hungary latvia czechs poland slovaks but behind lithuania , estonia malta and the developed world.

damien

1. Denmark 27.95%
2. Netherlands 25.30%
3. Finland 22.44%
4. Sweden 21.02%
5. Belgium 18.32%
6. UK 16.65%
7. France 16.61%
8.Luxembourg 15.55%
9. Austria 14.49%
10. Estonia 13.26%
11. Germany 12.98%
12. Malta 12.82%
13. Italy 12.14%
14. Portugal 11.65%
15. Spain 11.31%
16. Slovenia 9.78%
17. Lithuania 6.79%
18. Ireland 6.73%
19. Hungary 6.14%
20. Latvia 5.95%
21. Czech Rep. 4.41%
22. Poland 2.57%
23. Cyprus 2.60%
24. Slovakia 2.41%
25. Greece 1.45%

Averages:
EU15 14.6%
EU 10 4.0%
US 16.8%
Japan 17.7%

Better growth rates:
Poland 59%
Greece 43%
Czech 34%
Latvia 31%
Slovakia 31%

damien

The EU15 average shows 18% of DSL lines being delivered via LLU versus 2% in Ireland.

The countries with the highest broadband penetration (Netherlands, Sweden, Finland) are the countries with the highest percentage of DSL lines delivered via LLU.