New EU Broadband Performance Index (BPI) rates Ireland near bottom.

clohamon

The new Broadband Performance Index (BPI) benchmarks the overall performance of the Member States on a range of factors, which include speeds, rural coverage, affordability, innovation and other socioeconomic dimensions.

Pasted from <http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=4403&gt;


Criteria used:

• Broadband coverage, reflecting developments
in rural areas;
• Competition by coverage, reflecting a country's
innovative capacity, readiness to invest and
consumer choice;
• Available connection speeds, reflecting quality
developments;
• Prices, reflecting affordability;
• Use of advanced services, reflecting the
willingness of individuals and businesses to
take up innovative services and the perception
of trust;
• Socio-economic context, reflecting factors that
summarise preferences, skills and available
capital that influence the preparedness to use
advanced communication technologies and
services.

Looking at the bar graph, Ireland is 20th out of 28. If you take out the touchy feely stuff and just consider the first four performance measurements we are 24th out of 28.

Unfortunately no marks for, wishful thinking, spin, or drivel.

Liam Byrne

clohamon wrote: »

Looking at the bar graph, Ireland is 20th out of 28. If you take out the touchy feely stuff and just consider the first four performance measurements we are 24th out of 28.

Wow! That's at least 4 places higher than I thought we'd be!