Comments on: Broadband report 2008: Korea still leads

By: DaveJ

DaveJ — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:11:46 +0000

These results are extremely misleading. They fail to take into account download/upload quotas and the costs/reduced speeds incurred when these quotas are passed. For example, the “cheapest” 24/1mbit plan in Australia may be only $20 per month, but that would come with a monthly quota of less than 3GB. At that speed, you can reach the quota in less than 20 minutes, and then you’re stuck with 64k/64k for the rest of the month. Other ISPs will charge $0.15 per MB over instead of reducing the speed…

By: testng

testng — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:37:35 +0000

In Ireland i pay 55 euro a month for a 2mb connection.
thats 85 dollars!!
Irelands the most expensive country in the world because it limits most connections to 10-15gigs/month. and only a maxium speed of 2mb. That report is wrong.

Im moving to Korea! or Holland

By: YeahRight

YeahRight — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:03:24 +0000

Out of curiosity, why are these “reports” — as invariably misleading, laughably inaccurate, and pointless as they are — news? Does anyone give a flying rat poop?

Seriously, if you think a report like this has any validity or if said report makes you feel better about yourself or your country of residence, seek help.

By: Toffe

Toffe — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:28:02 +0000

#9 QUOTE “Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centred on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe which includes the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The other Nordic countries, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, are sometimes included because of their close historic and cultural connections to Denmark, Norway and Sweden”

quote from wikipedia…

By: fin

fin — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:05:08 +0000

That “report” if you can call it that is totally BS. I’m a finnish guy and I can say for a total certainty that the Average download speed is nowhere near 21.7 Mbps as the report says. Vast majority of the connections are ADSL under 8Mbps so there is no way the average is that high. The real figure is probably somewhere around NL and Denmark.

By: bff

bff — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:02:03 +0000

Not only is Canada overcharged, they also have network neutrality issues.

By: AmRoD

AmRoD — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:01:40 +0000

what this fails to mention sure canada has 7.6 or what ever (beats usa) but the bw is limited to like 50gb a month heh

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:35:13 +0000

just realized that canada is one of the most overcharged countries for broadband !

By: Zap

Zap — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:14:00 +0000

I’m in Korea… I pay $32, insanely fast speeds, and NO upload or download limits! But if you have a problem and call your ISP’s ENGLISH phone number they just giggle and hang up. Over and over and over again…

By: mitzi

mitzi — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:40:14 +0000

If you looking for accurate ranking try http://speedtest.net/global.php

have fun

By: volker

volker — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:08:07 +0000

I mean really…

You no sense of humour having bastards (must live in middle america or woolongong).

Lick and tongue around my balls and ass.

By: ROBINJG

ROBINJG — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:05:42 +0000

Are you sure this ain’t the list of countries with highest suicide-rate?

; )

By: volker

volker — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:05:15 +0000

I know what it means ya spastics.

Watch the matrix series again and you might get the joke.

For f**ks sakes.

By: blh

blh — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:55:47 +0000

Ah, it only ranks OECD countries. I wondered if they’d drawn the 30 to rank randomly, as some obvious heavy-hitters are missing.

By: usuktu

usuktu — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:51:05 +0000

Owned. Who the hell doesn’t know what ergo means?