High speed broadband in ireland ratings

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Did not know this.
The European Union wants member states to provide citizens with a minimum speed of 30Mbps broadband by 2020, with all nations offering basic broadband - generally regarded as 2Mbps speed - for all by 2013.
the eu is not all bad then.

broadband is getting better in ireland, but we are not among the best for the new high speed broadband. i was very surprised that ireland broadband ratings are higher than france, canada, the united states and uk.
we are still waiting to get the new wimax high speed broadband connection. it is not available everywhere in ireland. dublin comes first as always

Ireland has failed to meet international criteria to cope with the internet applications of tomorrow.
A new global survey released yesterday revealed that the country has made improvements in terms of broadband speed connection, ranking 13th out of 72 countries worldwide.
But we failed to make the grade when assessed for our ability to meet the hi-tech communications services of the future, according to an annual broadband survey commissioned by internet giant Cisco.

Fourteen countries are already prepared for the "internet applications of tomorrow" which include high-definition internet TV and high-quality video communications services.
These hi-tech services are expected to become mainstream in just a few years time but our broadband system is not yet ready for them.
On a positive note, Ireland jumped from 16th place to 13th in the broadband leadership ranks, ahead of France, Canada, the United States and Britain among others.
The international study was carried out 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, and sponsored by Cisco, which makes much of the core equipment on which the internet is based.

Communications Minister Eamon Ryan welcomed the survey and noted that Ireland was also grouped among the top 10 "broadband movers" since 2009, with 88pc broadband penetration, an 11pc increase on the previous year.
"This improvement is a reflection of the Government's progressive broadband policy, which encourages collaboration as well as competition. In the last two years, Ireland has seen a spike in broadband improvement, bringing to an end the legacy of underinvestment of the early 2000s," he said.
The study showed that global broadband quality has improved by 50pc in just three years and penetration of broadband continues to improve, with about half of the households (49pc) of the countries investigated now having access to broadband (up from 40pc in 2008).

Quality
Using the data from 40 million real-life broadband quality tests conducted in May-June of 2010 on the internet speed testing site, the researchers were able to evaluate the broadband quality of 72 countries around the globe.
Researchers concluded that 48 countries are meeting the requirements to enjoy all the major services offered by the internet today, as well as not so demanding applications, such as instant messaging.
This adds 10 countries since 2009, and 18 since 2008, despite the fact that global internet traffic volumes rose by 166pc from 2008-2010.
The 14 countries leading the way in terms of internet broadband capability are: South Korea, Japan, Latvia, Sweden, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania, Lithuania, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Germany, Portugal, Denmark and Iceland. This is up from nine countries in 2009.
- Grainne Cunningham
Irish Independent
independent.ie/national-news/ireland-still-not-ready-for-internet-of-future-2384775.html
TOP TEN BROADBAND REGIONS

* South Korea
* Hong Kong
* Japan
* Iceland
* Switzerland
* Luxembourg
* Singapore
* Malta
* Netherlands
* United Arab Emirates
* Qatar
* Sweden
* Denmark

Source: Said Business School
COUNTRIES READY FOR TOMORROW

* Korea
* Japan
* Latvia
* Sweden
* Bulgaria
* Finland
* Romania
* Lithuania
* Netherlands
* Hong Kong
* Germany
* Portugal
* Denmark
* Iceland
Source: Said Business School

bbc.co.uk/news/
The UK is slowly climbing up the broadband world rankings, but is still not "ready for tomorrow," according to a global study of net services.
The annual report, commissioned by network giant Cisco, looks at how well countries are doing in terms of both quality and penetration of net services.
The UK is now ranked 18th out of 72 countries, up from 25th place last year.
South Korea is once again ranked first.
The annual study, conducted by the University of Oxford's Said Business School and the University of Oviedo in Spain looks at a range of factors, including both the number of homes to have broadband and the quality of the services.
Quality, for the purposes of the study, encompasses the speed of the connection and the latency - the amount of time it takes data to arrive at a machine.
It put 14countries in the elite category of being ready for the "applications of tomorrow", including the obvious; Korea, Japan and Sweden and the less obvious; Latvia, Bulgaria and Portugal.
In 2008, when the first study was commissioned, only one country - Japan - was judged ready for tomorrow.

The applications ascribed to tomorrow's internet include high definition internet TV and high-quality video communications.
The report found that such applications would require an average download speed of 11Mbps and an upload speed of 5Mbps.
The average global upload speed currently is just 1.7Mbps.
In this year's report the UK is categorised as "comfortably enjoying today's applications", alongside 19 others including the USA, France, Canada, Greece and Poland.
A further 19 countries - including Vietnam, Egypt, China and India, are characterised as being "below today's application threshold" while five countries - Algeria, Peru, Nigeria, Kenya and Angola - are viewed as having only the most basic of services.

The report finds that average broadband speeds in the UK now stand at 6.4Mbps (megabits per second), which is more than double that in 2008, when the first report was compiled.
It is also above the global average of 5.9Mbps.
"The UK is not on average ready for tomorrow but there has been significant improvements in the last two years," said Fernando Gil de Bernabe, a senior director at Cisco.
Mr de Bernabe said the UK was likely to experience a "step-change" in its broadband footprint over the next 12 months, because of increased fibre optic roll-outs from BT and extensions of Virgin Media's cable network.
"Where similar fibre roll-outs have happened the download speeds improved by 50 or 60% in just one year," he said.

Those countries which are categorised as ready for tomorrow in the report have one thing in common, according to Mr de Bernabe.
"There is a clear digital strategy. These countries have placed a bet on broadband and think it will have the same impact on their economies as the infrastructures of the past. They want a society that is based on knowledge," he said.
The UK government has ambitions to be the best broadband economy in Europe by 2015, although it has so far only committed to the rollout of basic 2Mbps broadband by that date.

That decision could mean the UK falls foul of European legislation. The European Union wants member states to provide citizens with a minimum of 30Mbps broadband by 2020, with all nations offering basic broadband - generally regarded as 2Mbps - for all by 2013.
Mr de Bernabe said the UK needed to put its pledge into practise.
"What I hear repeatedly is the question about who is going to pay for it. The leadership countries aren't asking those questions," he said

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