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RE: Broadband Around the World; 31 Countries Compared

The "Subscribers per 100 inhabitants" metric has a statistical flaw. It does NOT take into account the size of the average family in each of the countries. Some of the countries at the top are there because they have smaller average number of people at a subscriber address. And some at the bottom have fewer subscribers, but because of larger average families have more people with broadband access.

A better measure would be number of people with broadband access and not subscribers with broadband access(which measures broadband lines and not people).

»www.oecd.org/document/29/0,3343,···,00.html

4a. Broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants in OECD countries
- Source: Data compiled from original and/or official Sources by Secretariat
- Current status: 2003 Provisional Data available from the Communications Outlook.
- Definition: The number of Internet subscribers is the number of active registered Internet accounts including all fixed network Broadband access technologies: Digital Subscriber Line services, Cable Modem services, Satellite broadband Internet, Fibre-to-the-home Internet access, Ethernet LANs, Fixed wireless subscribers. This excludes 3G subscribers

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