| reply to FiL
The ITIF report that CWA uses gives US avg as 4.8mps said by FiL:Stats are stats brah.:) Lies, damned lies, and statistics. They're comparing apples and oranges in the international comparisons. Their report, linked off the story, references this report:
»www.itif.org/files/BroadbandRankings.pdf
From page 3 of that report:
However, measuring speed is not as
straightforward as penetration because national
networks are normally composed of connections
of widely varying speeds. We calculate average
download speeds based on OECD data that
compiles the advertised speeds offered by
several major broadband providers in each
country. The OECD gathered this data from
national providers wherever possible. Note that Table 1, on page 4 of that report, the very source for the 61.0 Mbps number for Japan, the 45.6 Mbps number for South Korea, the 7.6 Mbps number for Canada and all the others, gives a number for the US. That number for the USA is 4.8 Mbps download.
Now, there are good reasons to think that the CWA speed test numbers may be more accurate for the speeds people actually have, as opposed to the fastest advertised hypothetical claims. But you can't compare the US numbers from actual speed surveys to non-US numbers from fastest advertised speeds. |
