[IP] Re: Avg broadband download speed in the US is 1.9 Mbps. It is 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in Sweden, 17 Mpbs in France, and 7 Mbps in Canada

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Synthesis: Law and Technology"  
<synthesis.law.and.technology@gmail.com>
Date: May 22, 2007 11:40:45 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Avg broadband download speed in the US is 1.9  
Mbps. It is 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in  
Sweden, 17 Mpbs in France, and 7 Mbps in Canada

It may indeed be an apples/oranges comparison but there still appears  
to be some merit in the discussion.  As a Canadian I would love to  
get the advertised speed. I get roughly half of that 7 on a claimed  
6Mbps service.  So we could conceivably be comparing 1.9 to over  
30?!?!?!  That is still a large gap.




On 5/22/07, David Farber <dave@farber.net> wrote:

Begin forwarded message:

From: Michael Kende < Michael.Kende@analysys.com>
Date: May 22, 2007 10:30:03 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net, ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: RE: [IP] Avg broadband download speed in the US is 1.9 Mbps.
It is 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in Sweden, 17
Mpbs in France, and 7 Mbps in Canada

Dave,

The CWA in the cited congressional testimony have provided an apples and
oranges comparison.  For the US, they did extensive tests of actual
speeds to get the 1.9 Mbps number, but for the other countries they went
to a report that used advertised speeds.  What is disingenuous about
this is that in the ITIF report that they cited
( http://www.itif.org/files/BroadbandRankings.pdf), the US had an  
average
advertised download speed of 4.8 Mbps, but they ignored that in favor of
their lower actual speed.  We did a study (the results of which you
posted to this group several months ago) that gathered data on actual
download speeds in other countries, and found that the higher the
advertised speeds, in general the bigger the gap between actual and
advertised speeds, so some of the countries mentioned by the CWA have
significantly lower download speeds then the headlines listed here.

I raise this simply to point out that this appears to be an attempt to
mislead the audience about this issue, and is particularly ironic in a
testimony in which the President of the CWA states that "Good data is
the foundation of good policy." (in support of a bill on broadband
census taking)

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net]
Sent: 22 May 2007 09:00
To: ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: [IP] Avg broadband download speed in the US is 1.9 Mbps. It is
61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in Sweden, 17 Mpbs in
France, and 7 Mbps in Canada



Begin forwarded message:

From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: May 21, 2007 5:43:21 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Avg broadband download speed in the US is 1.9
Mbps. It is 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in Sweden,
17 Mpbs in France, and 7 Mbps in Canada

[Note:  This item comes from reader Mike Cheponis.  DLH]

From: Mike Cheponis < mac@Wireless.Com>
Date: May 21, 2007 12:07:48 AM PDT
To: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Subject: Avg broadband download speed in the US is 1.9 Mbps. It is 61
Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in Sweden, 17 Mpbs in
France, and 7 Mbps in Canada

<http://pressesc.com/01179677598_us_internet_slow >


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