| Not an accurate measure... of true saturation.
What I'd like to see is:
- Highest connection speed offered
- Percent of state acreage availability
For example, if 10Mbps is available to 90% of the state, I'd want to see that.
Because if I assume that 1,000,000 households is the total, I can reasonably assume (with some margin of error) that 900,000 households could get that speed.
From there I would want to see:
- Percent of users on less than 1Mbps (in my opinion, that's basically not broadband if you're in this percentile)
- Percent of users on less than 5Mbps
- Percent of users on 10Mbps
When you use all these percentages as hard numbers and compare to other states, it gives you a true picture of which states are really "wired" versus those that get a bad rap because of their population (or lack thereof). |
 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:16 | I'd agree, to a certain extent. I'm surprised Canada isn't there. That means we have less than 15% of our internet users on 5mbit+ broadband.
Considering that, in Ontario and Quebec (the two most populous provinces), the basic (non-lite) speed for DSL and cable is both 7mbit, that's a bit odd.
I think the most likely thing is that, since DSL is more popular than cable by a decent margin, and Bell just moved from 5mbit to 7mbit, none of those 5mbit customers are getting counted. After all, they say users who ACHIEVED 5mbit or higher. Actual throughput on a 5mbit DSL line is ~4.3mbit, and on cable is slightly under 5. So 5mbit cable/DSL doesn't count as 5mbit to Akamai's stats. |
