Thursday, November 18, 2010

Broadband Gets Better, Globally

 Global broadband "quality" has improved by 50 percent in just three years and penetration of broadband continues to improve, with about half of the households (49 percent) of the countries investigated now having access to broadband (up from 40 percent in 2008), a study by a team of MBA students from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and the University of Oviedo's Department of Applied Economics, has found.

Using data from 40 million real-life broadband quality tests conducted in May to June of 2010 on the Internet speed testing site speedtest.net, the researchers were able to evaluate the broadband quality of 72 countries around the globe.

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