More On Broadband Prices Worldwide
In my last post I referred to an article about broadband prices in terms of average salaries. As readers pointed out the numbers there were not a good representation of broadband costs. In case of Pakistan the $106 figure for 100kbps was too high. The fine print mentioned that the data used in Wired illustration was from ITU. I am sure it outdated, and the broadband prices have fallen significantly in the last year in Pakistan. There are other considerations as well which were not taken into account in that comparison.
For one, broadband prices are not fixed in a country but vary. As shown in the chart below, based on the OECD data, the range can be significant. (Source)
Second, there are many other factors which should be taken into account when comparing the broadband prices for different countries. A recent report from the UK communicaitons regulator OFCOM writes about this with the title:
The complexities of quantifying broadband prices
A recent OECD report compared the lowest prices for broadband, on a cost per Mbit/s basis, across 30 countries, of which the UK ranked 16th. The UK data came from three ISPs (BT, HomeChoice and Telewest). As such it excluded pricing data from several leading LLU operators which are gaining market share as a result of their low-priced offerings. The report also looked at broadband prices in isolation, despite the fact that so many consumers now buy broadband as part of a bundle of services.
In the OECD’s analysis, Japan, which has implemented fibre to the home (FTTH) offering speeds of up to 100Mbit/s, had the lowest cost per Mbit/s. However, it is difficult to make a direct comparison of broadband packages between countries; differing topographies and population distributions mean that a service which is economically viable in one country may not be in another, due to the level of infrastructure investment required. UK
broadband providers have not yet seen a rationale for the rollout of FTTH, meaning it is unlikely that the UK will be able to challenge the cost per minute of those nations with FTTH in the near-to-mid term.There are also problems with using cost per Mbit/s as it fails to take into account that many consumers have yet to see the need for broadband speeds in excess of those already available in the UK.
Although international comparisons of broadband offerings and prices, such as the OECD report, can be useful, more complex analysis, taking into account service bundling and other points of service differentiation (such as data caps) is required.
Sources:
OFCOM Report from UK (Part 3 of the pdf reports)
OECD Report - Over 100 pages PDF
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Can someone help me answer two of my questions.
1) How many Internet users Pakistan have (or) how many computers are connected to Internet? (Please an updated/latest figure)
2) How many Broadband users we have at the present in Pakistan and city and operator wise?
I am doing research on these topics but believe me there is no such source which can authenticate the data i have (like 50,000 BB users and 12,000,000 Internet users). This data is also found from Internet… Can anyone please help.
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