Wednesday, 3 August 2011

What price broadband - poor USA!

Now here's an interesting chart that compares the price you have to pay for 2GB of broadband in various countries world wide.

2GB You wouldn't have thought it would you? USA is by far the most expensive. More than double UK, which itself is 6-7 times more expensive than Japan. And note that the UK access is only HDSPA (or 3.5G) not LTE (4G).

And here's another chart

Traffic … showing the explosive growth of mobile traffic! Wow! If there's not a huge profit to be made in that I will eat my hat. Mind you it will need lots of new technology and lots of bandwidth - who's for closing down some of those boring TV stations and using the channels for WiFi?

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