[AusNOG] Australia ranks 50th in the world for average internet speeds at 9.6Mbps...

[Paul Wilkins]

Average B/W is meaningless. Firstly, it doesn't consider geography, where
average B/W per km might be less meaningless. Consider population densities
(per sq mile) of the top ranking countries versus Australia:

Korea, South    501
Hong Kong       6735
Norway          15
Sweden          57
Switzerland     490
Singapore       18,645
Japan           339
Finland         17
Netherlands     491
Latvia          35

Australia       2


However any average B/W metrics will continue in their meaninglessness,
while urban Australia is lumped in with Rural and Regional, while in terms
of internet service, they may as well be two separate countries. If there
were separate metrics for Urban Australia, and then Rural/Regional
Australia, we'd likely find Urban Australia well up in the first world
country stakes, and R&R languishing somewhere alongside Chad. I had thought
the primary motivation of NBN had always been to provide carriage to R&R
areas, but actually they seem intent mostly on capturing a monopoly in the
final mile. Weird.

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins





On 21 March 2017 at 08:38, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 21 Mar. 2017 8:10 am, "Mark Delany" <g2x at juliet.emu.st> wrote:
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> On 21Mar17, Mark Smith allegedly wrote:
> > What does that say about where broadband capex in Australia is being
> spent?
>
> No, it says where is the capex being "effectively" spent.
>
>
> If the country mistakenly happened to be pouring billions into
> dialup-modem type infrastructure then it would be more capex but just
> ineffective.
>
> Not that a smart country like Australia would ever be crazy enough to
> do anything as silly as that.
>
>
> A great observation on how well value for money is sought is that it
> depends on how much of it is your money and whether or not it is being
> spent to your benefit. Politicians are spending other peoples' money on
> other people.
>
>
>
>
> Mark.
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