Europe rules the internet
Just don't mention Japan or South Korea
NUMBER CRUNCHING maths marvels at the International Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) have worked out using complicated numbery stuff that, of the top 15 Internet using nations on earth, ten are in Northern Europe.
The complex (for us) formula took into account the number of subscribers per household, the average speed of the line and the price per Mbps and aggregated the results down into a single score.
Poor old America was whipped into a rather weedy 15th place by little old Luxembourg.
You can get the full figures here but be warned, the server (obviously based in America) is complete and utter pantaloons. Took us seven minutes to download a 230k pdf file for the love of criminy!
And ze results are...
1 South Korea
2 Japan
3 Finland
4 Netherlands
5 France
6 Sweden
7 Denmark
8 Iceland
9 Norway
10 Switzerland
11 Canada
12 Australia
13 United Kingdom
14 Luxembourg
15 United States
16 Germany
17 Belgium
18 Portugal
19 New Zealand
20 Spain
21 Italy
22 Austria
23 Ireland
24 Greece
25 Hungary
26 Poland
27 Czech Republic
28 Slovak Republic
29 Turkey
30 Mexico
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Just don't mention Japan or South Korea
NUMBER CRUNCHING maths marvels at the International Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) have worked out using complicated numbery stuff that, of the top 15 Internet using nations on earth, ten are in Northern Europe.
The complex (for us) formula took into account the number of subscribers per household, the average speed of the line and the price per Mbps and aggregated the results down into a single score.
Poor old America was whipped into a rather weedy 15th place by little old Luxembourg.
You can get the full figures here but be warned, the server (obviously based in America) is complete and utter pantaloons. Took us seven minutes to download a 230k pdf file for the love of criminy!
And ze results are...
1 South Korea
2 Japan
3 Finland
4 Netherlands
5 France
6 Sweden
7 Denmark
8 Iceland
9 Norway
10 Switzerland
11 Canada
12 Australia
13 United Kingdom
14 Luxembourg
15 United States
16 Germany
17 Belgium
18 Portugal
19 New Zealand
20 Spain
21 Italy
22 Austria
23 Ireland
24 Greece
25 Hungary
26 Poland
27 Czech Republic
28 Slovak Republic
29 Turkey
30 Mexico
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