Scott Wallsten from the Technology Policy Institute talks about international broaband comparisons a presentation to the Minnesota Broadband Task Force, December 2008

1. Understanding International Broadband Comparisons December 19, 2008 Scott Wallsten [email_address] www.techpolicyinstitute.org www.wallsten.net

4. Sources: European Community (2008); US Census (2007), Pew Internet & American Life Foundation (2008); National Internet Development Agency of Korea (2008); Impress/R&D Internet Media Research Institute (2007). See footnote 8 in Wallsten (2008). April 2008

5. OECD (and FCC) can’t count business connections

6. Total

7. Total Residential

8. Total Residential Business (implied)

9. U.S. Census: 81 million people have Internet at work Nielsen: 95% of workers with Internet access have broadband 77 million U.S. workers have broadband at work OECD/FCC miss about 72 million connections

10. 66 million connections (OECD) 72 million workplace 138 million U.S. wired broadband connections

11. Share of counted connections that are residential

12. Why is the U.S. OECD rank falling?

13. Household size. Countries with larger households will have fewer connections per capita.

14. Hermitopia population: 20 Grüphaus Republic population: 20

15. Hermitopia population: 20 Grüphaus Republic population: 20 2001 Internet

16. Hermitopia population: 20 Grüphaus Republic population: 20 2008 Internet

17. Korea Sweden Canada Denmark Belgium Netherlands Austria United States Iceland Japan Korea Sweden Canada Denmark Belgium Netherlands Austria United States Iceland Japan

18. When every household in every country has broadband, U.S. per capita rank will be very low

19. Sources: European Community (2008); US Census (2007), Pew Internet & American Life Foundation (2008); National Internet Development Agency of Korea (2008); Impress/R&D Internet Media Research Institute (2007). See footnote 8 in Wallsten (2008). April 2008

20. What about wireless broadband? (for one thing, per capita counts are OK!)

21. Source: FCC (2008) cable dsl mobile fiber satellite & fixed

22. Source: Nielsen Company (2008). Note: Lots of countries (like Japan) not included this survey!

24. Unique IP Addresses Per Capita Advantages of this metric : Includes all devices connected to the Internet—wired, wireless, household, business, etc. Disadvantage : Does the nature of IP addressing inflate U.S. numbers? Source: Akamai, State of the Internet , Q3 2008.

25. Source: Akamai, State of the Internet , Q3 2008. Unique “High Broadband” IP Addresses Per Capita “ High broadband” – connections with connections with at least 5 Mbps.

26. Speeds consider actual, not advertised

27. Source: Speedtest.net. Note: Korea measurement probably too low because Speedtest.net does not have a server there.

28. Source: Akamai, The State of the Internet, Q3 2008. Speeds Observed by Akamai, Q3 2008

29. U.S. Data

30. Source: FCC (2008).

31. Source: U.S. Census, Current Population Survey 2007.

32. Ten fastest states as measured by Akamai Source: Akamai, State of the Internet , Q3 2008.

33. Ten fastest states (download) as measured by Speedtest.net

34. Ten fastest states (download) as measured by Speedtest.net and their speeds measured by CWA (speedmatters)

35. Biggest speed improvements, Q2-Q3 2008 Source: Akamai, State of the Internet , Q3 2008.

36. Source: U.S. Census (2007).

39. Conclusion Relax. We’re OK.