tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654027243541805559.post3347951275729958961..comments2023-04-14T18:22:15.757+08:00Comments on Australian FTTH News: Australia falling behind in the Broadband raceStephen Davieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03671744373168657090noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654027243541805559.post-8447879968002966542008-09-18T16:11:00.000+08:002008-09-18T16:11:00.000+08:00Stephen, regards from Citynet Spain. I don't know ...Stephen, regards from Citynet Spain. I don't know about Australia, but the Spanish law allows service providers to supply 'as much as' 10% of the advertised speed. This is, I have a 6 Mbps plan and I never get more than 500 Kbps, this is, not even a 10% of the theoretical speed. Being this the case, measures should be performed at user's home, taking a sample enough to extrapolate the results to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654027243541805559.post-89682661213020417992008-09-15T18:40:00.000+08:002008-09-15T18:40:00.000+08:00Thanks Richard,I agree it is certainly not the bes...Thanks Richard,<BR/><BR/>I agree it is certainly not the best unit of measurement. However it is consistant unit of measurement across the world.<BR/><BR/>The anicdotal evidence certainly suggests a similar position, with many of the top nations already having large Fibre deployments. Japan for example now as of July 2008 has more FTTP subscribers than DSL subscribers. Thus the reason they are atStephen Davieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03671744373168657090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4654027243541805559.post-50016086924417338312008-09-15T16:15:00.000+08:002008-09-15T16:15:00.000+08:00Stephen,I'm afraid the average speed, as measured ...Stephen,<BR/><BR/>I'm afraid the average speed, as measured by both the ITIF and the OECD, is a meaningless measure.<BR/><BR/>It is derived like this:<BR/>- take a survey of plans on offer<BR/>- work out the average speed of the plans.<BR/><BR/>This is, therefore, not a measure of:<BR/>- what the consumer is buying; or<BR/>- what "real" speed the end user experiences.<BR/><BR/>The problem isn't Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com