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Alex J
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Re: The whole discussion is bull

The stats are skewed in such a way to show geographically large countries like the US lower in the ratings.

ALL of the stats from every stat farm showing we're middle of the road are skewed to simply make us look bad? So the lobbyists are right! We are secretly awesome and our broadband woes are all hallucinated. Good find!

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said by Alex J :

The stats are skewed in such a way to show geographically large countries like the US lower in the ratings.

ALL of the stats from every stat farm showing we're middle of the road are skewed to simply make us look bad? So the lobbyists are right! We are secretly awesome and our broadband woes are all hallucinated. Good find!

Not actually what I was saying, it is possible to find MANY locations HERE, the equal or better OOkla's carefully crafted rankings, HOWEVER there is a lot more area to cover here, without the per mile density needed to support the cost of new wire line builds capable of those higher speeds.
The lobbyists aren't correct that we are done building out, neither are the naysayers point to those rankings a place use in the broadband third world.
In fact It is likely that in the US providers rollout more faster connections in a few weeks then some of the higher ranking countries have or will ever have.
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As made famous by Mark Twain, there are lies, damned lies and statistics. On the surface, statistics can be used to support any conclusion. However, it's incredibly important to thoroughly question them before assigning confidence to their conclusions.

I believe the OOkla stats for Andorra are similar to NFL QB efficiency ratings. The guy at the top of the list could be a backup with ONE really great quarter. That's why you'll often see the ratings filtered to only show starting quarterbacks or at the very least, quarterbacks with significant playing time.

Another example is automotive "highest initial quality" statistics. It's not an inconsequential figure because we expect new cars to be defect free. However, if a car tops that list and then proceeds to develop more defects than any other car after 10,000 miles, we quickly realize initial quality does not guarantee enduring quality and how that particular statistic can be very misleading.

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The good news is if you take the time to scan through the entire Akamai report
»www.scribd.com/fullscree ··· are=true

The US number are looking very good, even when compared with the oft touted Asian countries who's complete stats aren't quite as good as some here would have you believe - see both charts on page 24
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said by tshirt:

The good news is if you take the time to scan through the entire Akamai report
»www.scribd.com/fullscree ··· are=true

The US number are looking very good, even when compared with the oft touted Asian countries who's complete stats aren't quite as good as some here would have you believe - see both charts on page 24

What's really interesting is that the United States does comparatively well in the percentage of connections above 10 Mbps.

Out of 123 countries, the United States comes in 8th on this metric (p. 13), at 25%. That's better than 22 out of 25 countries in the EMEA region (p. 26). Also better than 18 out of 21 countries in Europe. The top country in Europe, Switzerland, scored 30%. Some of the numbers are quite shocking: France at 5.2%, or Germany at 13%.

Akamai's numbers include businesses as well as residences. So it may be that Europe just has poor Internet connectivity at businesses, which drags down their numbers.
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I might be mistaken but I thought Europe relies more on DSL than the US. If true, that could become a disadvantage without continued FTTN investment and deploying the latest VDSL tech. In contrast, with the DTV transition in the rear view mirror of most cable providers, the reclaimed spectrum should give them a bit of breathing room.