The Bureau of Communications, Arts and Regional Research (BCARR) has released new analysis, finding Australia’s fixed broadband performs strongly across key indicators when compared to other countries.
The Bureau said the analysis was the product of a new methodology developed with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), more robust measures for assessing Australia’s fixed broadband performance and a more comparable subset of similar countries, including those with a similar economy and geography.
“The analysis finds Australia performs strongly on near-universal access to services of at least 25 megabits per second and has high broadband take up,” BCARR said.
“Australia ranks first out of 15 comparable countries for broadband access to services with speeds of at least 25 megabits per second,” it said.
“With over 99 per cent of homes and businesses having access to fixed services with this minimum speed.”
BCARR said the analysis also looked at the limitations of existing measures that often focused on download speeds and didn’t always accurately reflect relative performance due to methodological issues and data availability.
It said the Bureau had drawn on the analysis to produce two factsheets on Australia’s fixed broadband performance in comparison to international peers, the Measuring Australia’s fixed broadband performance factsheet and International comparison of fixed broadband performance factsheet.
BCARR’s five-page Measuring Australia’s fixed broadband performance factsheet can be downloaded at this PS News link and its two-page International comparison of fixed broadband performance factsheet at this link.
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