Top Internet-connected countries

There are 30 countries with high Internet speed in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). According to calculations, it increased by 26% to about 197 million units by the end of 2006 from 157 million units a year earlier. This number also increases in line with the population growth rate.

But what is achieved is still not evenly distributed. Several countries in Northern Europe and Asia are participating in countries with fast Internet. Notably, Korea and Japan are leading the connection through fiber optic networks. And although the US leads OECD in the total number of customers using the network, it does not prevent it from falling in the ranking of speed.

Denmark

Rating : 1
Last year's ranking : 4
Network subscription calculated on 100 : 31.9
Subscribers total : 1,728,359

Denmark and the Netherlands are the first two countries in the OECD community to cross the threshold of 30 subscribers over 100 inhabitants. Denmark also has the highest growth rate in the past year, adding to 5.8 subscribers per 100 inhabitants.

South Korea

Rating : 4
Last year's ranking : 2
Network subscribers calculated on 100 : 29.1
Total subscriber : 14,042,728

Korea is the country with the highest speed Internet among Asian countries in the OECD community, with at least 26 subscribers over 100 inhabitants. And of those 100 people, about 6 people are connected to high-speed Internet via fiber optic network.

Canada

Rating : 9
Last year's ranking : 8
Network subscription is calculated on 100 : 23.8
Total subscriber : 7,675,533

No country in the G7 group is more connected to the network than Canada. And while ADSL subscriber lines are the way to occupy 28 of 30 OECD member countries, in Canada, modem connections are still the dominant form.

England

Rating : 11
Last year's ranking : 13
Network subscription on 100 : 21.6
Total subscription : 12,993,354

British citizens benefit from competing distributors reducing the cost of each 25 megabit / s connection package to only $ 24 a month. Just in the past week, distributor The Cloud said it will fund the financial district of London city with wi-fi technology with the highest Internet access speed.

Japan

Rating : 14
Last year's ranking : 11
Network subscription on 100 : 20.2
Total subscription : 25,755,080

Japan leads the OECD block for connecting with super-fast fiber-optic networks - 7.9 million units on the total number of subscribers. In fact, Japan's cable subscribers are more than the total of 23 countries in 30 OECD countries combined.

America

Rating : 15
Ranking last year : 12
Network subscription on 100 : 19.2
Total subscriber : 58,136,288

The United States has dropped its rankings by experts, the main reason for the high-speed Internet connection in the United States is more expensive than most other countries. US users pay 10 times more than the average.

Australia

Rating : 16
Last year's ranking : 17
Network subscription on 100 : 19.2
Total subscriber : 3,939,288

Like most other countries, telephone line services are no longer popular in Australia. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, about 2.75 million telephone subscribers still in use in Australia in September 2006 dropped from 4.1 million 18 months ago.

Hungary

Rating : 24
Last year's ranking : 25
Network subscription over 100 : 11.9
Total subscriber : 1,198,709

In early 2006, the European Investment Bank agreed to lend 190 million euros to the country to develop technology infrastructure and speed up connections to the Internet.

Mexico

Rating : 30
Last year's ranking : 28
Network subscription over 100 : 3.5
Total subscription : 3,728,150

Among OECD countries, Mexico is a country with a shortage of infrastructure to provide high-speed Internet connection. Avantel is one of the suppliers trying to fix this problem. It will build basic networks in major cities like Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Mexico City later this year

Minh Khue