Ireland's International Standing in Broadband - Stats

Thraktor

Quite a few international organisations provide data on broadband by country, and rankings on a number of related areas, so I thought that it would be worthwhile putting together a list of Ireland's standing in each of these tables. Some, like the OECD stats, are purely data-based, while rankings like the WEFs are more subjective, but combined they can give us a fairly good idea of how Ireland stacks up against our international competitors.

OECD Broadband Statistics

Broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants (June 2008) - 21st of 30
Business broadband penetration by size class [10-49 employees] - 20th of 26
Business broadband penetration by size class [50-249 employees] - 19th of 28
Business broadband penetration by size class [250+ employees] - 13th of 26
Average broadband monthly subscription price, USD PPP (Oct. 2007) - 10th of 29 -- 1st is cheapest
Average broadband monthly price per advertised Mbit/s, by country, USD PPP (Oct. 2007) - 14th of 30 -- 1st is cheapest
Proportion of broadband packages with data caps (Oct. 2007) - 24th of 30 -- 1st is lowest
Average price per additional megabyte after reaching the bit/data cap (Oct. 2007) - 8th of 18 -- 1st is cheapest
Average advertised download speeds (Oct. 2007) - 28th of 30
Fastest advertised connection offered by the incumbent operator (Oct. 2007) - 29th of 30
Fastest advertised connection available among all surveyed operators (Oct 2007) - 28th of 30

World Economic Forum Networked Readiness Index - April 2008 - 127 countries

Networked Readiness Index - 23rd
Political and regulatory environment - 17th
Infrastructure environment - 15th
Individual Readiness - 16th
Business Readiness - 8th
Government Readiness - 28th
Quality of competition in the ISP sector - 68th (behind Bulgaria and Azerbaijan)
Number of telephone lines - 17th
Internet access in schools - 38th (behind Thailand and the Slovak Republic)
Residential telephone connection charge - 29th
Residential monthly telephone subscription - 38th
High-speed monthly broadband subscription - 15th
Lowest cost of broadband - 23rd
Cost of mobile telephone call - 25th
Business telephone connection charge - 24th
Business monthly telephone subscription - 24th
Government prioritization of ICT - 52nd (tied with Benin and Madagascar)
Importance of ICT to government vision of the future - 34th (behind Gambia and Burkina Faso)
Mobile telephone subscribers - 14th
Broadband Internet subscribers - 29th
Internet users - 38th
Internet bandwidth - 16th
Availibility of new telephone lines - 73rd
Extent of business Internet use - 24th
Government success in ICT promotion - 50th (tied with Uganda and Tanzania)

Economist E-Readiness Rankings - 2008 - 70 countries

E-Readiness Ranking - 21st
Connectivity - 23rd
Business environment - 7th
Social and cultural environment - 12th
Legal environment - 11th
Government policy and vision - 25th
Consumer and business adoption - 19th

These are the stats and rankings that I know of off the top of my head, but any additional sources of information would obviously be appreciated.

crawler

ECTA

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

Some European stuff on the Information society pages

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/index_en.htm

And ComReg Ofcom good too

Sponge Bob

Comreg are crap . They include Midband 3G products in their Broadband figures and so of course does that muppet Eamon Ryan .

OECD figures are compiled by stripping 3G out and focusing on real broadband .....except that the OECD forgot to strip out Clearwire and Ripwave too which are also midband

Thraktor

OECD break down their broadband penetration stats by technology, so you can redo the numbers without the 'Other' category (in Ireland this would consist mostly of Ripwave and Clearwire, as well as a couple of satellite operators). In that case we drop a place to 22nd.

Sponge Bob

The main ECTA Scorecard is in this spreadsheet here .

http://www.ectaportal.com/en/upload/File/Broadband%20Scorecards/Q108/BB_Sc_Q108_press_release_Final.pdf

The Comreg data it came from is taken from here ( pages 22- 29)

http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg0843.pdf

once

1. about 7000 fibre connections are added to Non incumbent DSL
2. almost 200,000 midband 3g connections are stripped out by ECTA ...not Broadband in the developed world only in Ireland

Then It matches the ECTA Data exactly and we know the ECTA data came from Comreg .

The problem is that Comreg report 10s of 1000s of Ripwaves and Clearwires as Fixed Wireless Access in their FWA numbers ....and yes I know they are not FIXED at all .

I would estimate that 40,000 of the 121842 reported by Comreg and by ECTA from Comreg are neither Fixed nor Broadband .

In other words 1/3 of FWA subs are no better than cacky 3g which is not counted in International Surveys by ECTA and the OECD

In fact Ireland has more FWA connections, absolutely , than anywhere else in the EU bar none and also has more midband connections per head of capita than anywhere else in the world once you add 186k 3g and 40k Ripwave/Clearwires together even though ECTA do not report on midband technologies ...and nor do the OECD

Thraktor

I can't seem to edit the original post to add these in, but I came across these two recent reports today:

ITIF - The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU & US Innovation and Competitiveness - February 2009 - 40 countries/regions

Broadband - 30th

(There are other stats and rankings in there, but this is the only one directly applicable)

ITU - ICT Development Index - 2009 - 150 countries

ICT Development Index - 18th
IDI Access sub-index - 16th
IDI Use sub-index - 19th
IDI Skills sub-index - 25th
ICT Price Basket 2008 - 21st* -- 1st is cheapest
ICT Price Basket 2008 - Absolute cost - 135th** -- 1st is cheapest
Fixed telephone sub-basket 2008 - 36th* -- 1st is cheapest
Fixed telephone sub-basket 2008 - Absolute cost - 150th** -- 1st is cheapest
Mobile cellular sub-basket 2008 - 17th* -- 1st is cheapest
Mobile cellular sub-basket 2008 - Absolute cost - 133rd** -- 1st is cheapest
Fixed broadband Internet sub-basket 2008 - 16th* -- 1st is cheapest
Fixed broadband Internet sub-basket 2008 - Absolute cost - 92nd** -- 1st is cheapest
Fixed telephone lines per 100 inhabitants - 15th
Mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 inhabitants - 20th
International Internet bandwidth per Internet user - 17th
Proportion of households with computers - 26th
Proportion of households with Internet - 25th
Internet users per 100 inhabitants - 24th
Fixed broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants - 27th
Mobile broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants - 7th

*These categories are a measure of prices divided by GNI per capita, not absolute prices. Chapter 6 of the report details the methodology.
**I recalculated their numbers for these ones to rank according to absolute cost of the basket.

Sponge Bob

Traktor , You have no idea how much trouble you have just caused.,

Thraktor

Care to explain, Sponge Bob?

Sponge Bob

PM !

Thraktor

Ah, just noticed that.

The most important item from the report is that, according to the ITU, Ireland has the most expensive fixed line telephone costs in the world. Of course, a lot of the other stuff in there isn't the most flattering either.

watty

But we are really good at using Mobile for Internet. 120% phone penetration and 7th in use for Mobile to Access Internet.

Except 80% to 95% of "mobile" users are using it as fixed Internet

Sponge Bob

That is because we are forced to do so Watty

Fluffybums

And with this fanatastic provision of broadband the government are going to support a "knowledge based" economy.:rolleyes: Ah, Bless......

Thraktor

Just found out that the WEF released this year's Global Information Technology Report a couple of weeks ago. Here are this year's rankings:

World Economic Forum Networked Readiness Index - March 2009 - 127 countries

Networked Readiness Index - 23rd - No change
Political and regulatory environment - 15th - Up 2 places
Infrastructure environment - 16th - Down 1 place
Individual Readiness - 21st - Down 5 places
Business Readiness - 9th - Down 1 place
Government Readiness - 31st - Down 3 places
Quality of competition in the ISP sector - 79th - Down 11 places
Number of telephone lines - 17th - No change
Internet access in schools - 44th - Down 6 places
Residential telephone connection charge - 34th - Down 5 places
Residential monthly telephone subscription - 46th - Down 8 places
High-speed monthly broadband subscription - 16th - Down 1 place
Lowest cost of broadband - 23rd - No change
Cost of mobile telephone call - 24th - Up 1 place
Business telephone connection charge - 31st - Down 7 places
Business monthly telephone subscription - 28th - Down 4 places
Government prioritization of ICT - 68nd - Down 16 places
Importance of ICT to government vision of the future - 46th - Down 12 places
Mobile telephone subscribers - 21st - Down 7 places
Broadband Internet subscribers - 29th - No change
Internet users - 42nd - Down 4 places
Internet bandwidth - 16th - No change
Availibility of new telephone lines - 60th - Up 13 places
Extent of business Internet use - 31st - Down 7 places
Government success in ICT promotion - 66th - Down 16 places

Thraktor

Quality of competition in the ISP sector - 79th - Down 11 places

Countries that have overtaken us in the past year:
Pakistan, Benin, Nepal, Kenya, Mongolia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zambia, Vietnam, Morocco, Spain and Indonesia.


Internet access in schools - 44th - Down 6 places

Countries that have overtaken us:
Bahrain, Cyprus, Lithuania, Malaysia, Chile and Spain.


Government prioritization of ICT - 68nd - Down 16 places

Countries that have overtaken us:
Botswana, Tajikistan, Chile, Jamaica, Macedonia, Pakistan, Belgium, New Zealand, Colombia, Czech Rep, Madagascar, Slovenia, Maldova, Lithuania, Kazakhstan and Thailand.


Importance of ICT to government vision of the future - 46th - Down 12 places

Countries that have overtaken us:
Luxembourg, Canada, Slovenia, Dominican Rep, Sri Lanka, Israel, Chile, Mauritius, Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Thailand and Egypt


Government success in ICT promotion - 66th - Down 16 places

Countries that have overtaken us:
United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Japan, Jamaica, Colombia, Slovenia, Uganda, Kenya and Chile.