The OECD has updated its broadband statistics of member states to June 2009. The number of broadband subscribers in the OECD in June 2009 was 271 million, up 10% from June 2008, and half of OECD countries have reached 25 subscriptions in a 100 people. Future growth in fast broadband is expected to come from fibre-optic networks.
In June 2009 the United States had the most broadband subscribers by millions in the world with over 81m, Japan came second with nearly 31m and Germany with 24m. These were followed by France and the UK with 18.7 and 17.7m respectively and then Korea with nearly 16m and Italy with nearly 12m.
Korea had the largest proportion of households with 94.3% having broadband access. Iceland had 83.2% and Denmark 74.1%. The United States proprtion of households with broadband access was 50.8% (2007), the UK had 61.5%, Japan 58.5%, Germany 54.9% and Italy 30.8%.
The price range of broadband monthly subscriptions was very wide in some countries and very narrow in others. In Turkey the price range was very wide. The range was from very low at $8.45 a month to quite high at $125.95 a month in US dollars PPP terms. The Slovak Republic's range was widest from a moderately low $15.6 a month to a very high $263.23 a month. Korea had a very narrow range of prices in the middle to low range from $33.97 to $43.03. The US range in price was from $14.99 a month to $139.95 a month. UK prices ranged from $17.81 to $55.76, Japan prices range from $19.50 to $67.09 a month, Germany $23.02 to $75.15 and Italy from $11.39 to $45.43.
The average prices for low speed connections were lowest in Italy at $11.39 PPP and highest in Mexico at $57.79. The US average was $24.40, the UK $22.07, Japan $22.38 and Germany $36.96. The average monthly broadband subscription price was highest in the Slovak Republic at $78.86 PPP quite a long way ahead of Mexico in second at $59.52 and the lowest in Sweden at $29.22 ahead of Greece at £30.06.
PPP stands for Purchasing Power Parity which is a measure that gives currencies some equivalence for a meaningful comparison in terms of a parity of their purchasing power.
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