<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">That's terrible! We should force customers to spend more money on their broadband, or take pay cuts so they can have more within what they're willing to pay.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>However, if you look at section 8 about mobile broadband, we're number 1 is ASPAC (somewhat remarkable to me given Japan and Korea's presence), and also surpass the average performance of all of the Americas.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Americas: Canada, 10.3 Mbps</div><div>Asia Pacific: Australia, 13.8 Mbps</div><div>Europe: United Kingdom, 26.8 Mbps</div><div>Middle East/Africa: United Arab Emirates, 17.2 Mbps</div></div><div><br></div><div>What does that say about where broadband capex in Australia is being spent? It is being spent on mobile because that's where the customers' want to spend their money for more performance.</div><div><br></div><div>Believe in a technology all you want, but it will only be a successful technology in a market if it is solving a problem that customers are willing to pay to have solved.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 Mar. 2017 6:11 am, "Michael Bullut" <<a href="mailto:main@kipsang.com" target="_blank">main@kipsang.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Greetings Team,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Australia is ranked 50th in the world for its average national internet connection speeds, lagging just behind the likes of France, Qatar, New Zealand and Thailand, according to a report conducted by Akamai and posted to <a href="https://www.comparebroadband.com.au/broadband-articles/latest-news-id3/average-australian-internet-speed-december-2016-id1137/" target="_blank"><i>comparebroadband.com.au.</i></a></font><br></div><div> </div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>Article:</b> <a href="https://www.crn.com.au/news/australia-ranks-50th-in-the-world-for-average-internet-speeds-at-96mbps-447211" target="_blank"><b>https://www.crn.com.au/news/au<wbr>stralia-ranks-50th-in-the-worl<wbr>d-for-average-internet-speeds-<wbr>at-96mbps-447211</b></a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Gaze on it...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div class="gmail-m_-5761854259999111675m_-3397963845768726640gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Warm regards, <br>
<br>Michael Bullut. <br>
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