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The average speed is rather low, if you want faster than you have to pay A LOT more than the average price, it's the same here in NZ, the standards are really low.

yes Australia is above the United States BUT the average speed is only 1.7..

now south korea is pushing 50 and japan 63, yet the rest of the world is nowhere near that.. wow..

Yep. That's true, we do have bad internet plans but we are coming out with speed. In fact I live in a small town and yet, we have ADSL2+. Many ISPs here provides mirror sites on their server to compensate for high prices and small usage limits. You can't really blame ISPs for providing crap plans. Blame the government, (though the new government that got voted have promised to look into our broadband network...that's why I voted for them and not howard's).

+1 only decent thing is we gone up list we were second to last above mexico the last two surveys but still same garbage as always.

You should see the speeds in India. They average like 0.2 Mbps (256 Kbps), and they pay $15 per month for it. Many people are still on dialup. No 3G yet, and GPRS is slower than dialup. I heard they've started getting 2Mbps lines last year - they pay $22 per month and have a free-downlaod limit of 1.5 GB.

One would think that a country with such a large IT talent and being the backoffice for many MNCs would have a sem-decent net connectivity.

Huge population is huge.

NZ is what you'd call an established western country. In retrospect to place like australia we have very low quality. As of now i'm paying $60 [46 usd] odd for 7.6Mbps (realisticly get about 5-6 if i'm lucky)/768k with a 6GB data limit. which lasts me about a day but compared to all other isps i can get internet from this is about normal which quite frankly when you look at data limits in the US 6GB is bs pretty much. So basically i'm paying $60+ NZD a month for essentially 64k dial up. We have no better plan to go to without shelling out hundreds nor do we even have ADSL2+ yet either as an option so yeah. maybe we unbundled local loop but that's now turning out to be a waste of time really since 1 out of 5 or so major isps is only one taking advantage of it but they're still practicing this idea of not letting you have it unless you get your toll calls with them which again is another bs tactic.

heck we don't even have a cable infrastructure thats open to public to use...

You should see the prices in South Africa...

We have a fixed line monopoly, and we pay around $30 for a 1 gig cap, on a 384 Kbps line!!!!

In fact we also pay for the damn line rental. So if you dont already have a phone line, factor in another $20 for the phone line rental!!!!!!!

Holy ****!...etisalat provides internet service over here in Pakistan (PTCL)....and we have WAYYYY better rates than that! ahahh

512k Unlimited - $20 per month

1mbps unlimited - $33 per month

and 2 mbps for $80 per month

Last edited by Triliaeris on 04 May 2008 - 00:29

Yeah I hope so, but something tells me it's gonna take BT more than a few years to sort it out. They seem to be such a backwards company

No it's not.. While a big part of Portuguese people think we are very late in technology we are not..

And this study doesn't even take the study of mobile speeds where we are the in the first to ten spot in the world..
Hey we have 7.2Mbs on mobile phones available in 3 ISP's on any place of Portugal..
Ask other world folks what are there to speeds?

Also I have a speed of 24Mb/1Mb in ADSL2+ and unlimited traffic and pay 49€ month..

It doesn't matter claims for technological superiority when the products do not deliver.
Portuguese IPSs are obnoxious and rarely give a crap about the client. I've been trying to connect for the past 30 minutes, and I live less than a mile away from a Novis node, with perfect sockets. With phone(s)/without phones, it doesn't matter.
DECO is flooded with complaints against the telecoms. Julgados and civil courts are flooded with cases.
Telecoms take advantage of the user. Yay.

Unless you live in a zone with new cabling like Carnaxide (even with optics!) and decent zone managers, you'll always get the up-to-fun! speeds. Just the up, no fun. Stuck on Gdmt, unsync and living next to a node? I'm not the only one with these problems, and there are people dealing with larger crap.

Unlimited traffic? Netcabo, perhaps. I'm in the near-equivalent plan on Clix, with no throttled torrents.

We have great mobile speeds? Who uses these services? If it wasn't for the novoriquismo, nobody would use it, except for the proverbial it-guys, managers, marketeers, etc.
Maybe in France they have less downstream available, but I can assure you that are more users there than here, because... they can afford it (and like anything else, it's more expensive than here).

At least the narrowband days are over. So they say.