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Report: Iceland Now Leads World in Broadband Penetration

Authored by dmw on April 12, 2006 - 7:39am.
Paris - Iceland now leads the world in broadband penetration, with 26.7% of those accessing the Internet in the country via a high-speed connection, according to a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Iceland edged out long-time leader Korea (25.4%), as well as the Netherlands and Denmark, all of whom now claim greater than 25% broadband penetration. The U.S. ranked twelfth, with 16.8%, just behind Japan (17.6%). Overall, the OECD reports that the number of broadband subscriptions among its 30 member countries grew from 136 million in June 2005 to 158 million by December 2005. The U.S. has the largest total number of broadband subscribers in the OECD, with 49 million, accounting for 31% of all OECD broadband connections.
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OECD: Internet Telephony to Revolutionize Telecommunications

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 25, 2005 - 6:46am.
Paris -- A new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a group of the world's leading industrialized countries, has identified Internet telephony (VoIP) as the next technological innovation to shake up the global telecommunications industry. "The growing popularity of Internet telephony threatens the fixed-line revenues of traditional carriers, especially for international calls," the OECD said. "VoIP presents a challenge to mobile telephones, which in many countries are now more numerous than fixed connections." The OECD report also said that the growing popularity of downloading video from the Internet would significantly reduce the time people spend watching free-to-air TV, driving down audience share and advertising revenue for broadcasts and making it harder for public-service broadcasters to meet their social policy objectives.
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