CBC News – Technology & Science – Canadian internet slow, expensive: Harvard
As I have always suspected, we Canadians are indeed being ripped off in the Broadband space. Enough already with being gouged for telecom services in this country!
Canadian internet slow, expensive: HarvardLast Updated: Monday, February 22, 2010 | 5:41 PM ET Comments338Recommend254By Peter Nowak, CBC NewsCanada ranks 19th out of 30 countries in broadband internet after measures such as speed and price are taken into account.Canada ranks 19th out of 30 countries in broadband internet after measures such as speed and price are taken into account. Jim Hannon/Associated PressA new report from Harvard University says that contrary to what the CRTC states, Canada has some of the slowest and most expensive internet access in the developed world.”Our company-level pricing study for the highest-speed offers in the countries we observe here locates all of the Canadian companies but one in the cluster with the slowest speeds and highest prices,” said the report from the university's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.”Canada continues to see itself as a high performer in broadband, as it was early in the decade, but current benchmarks suggest that this is no longer a realistic picture of its comparative performance on several relevant measures.”A report from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission last year found that Canada was a broadband leader among G7 nations.But the Harvard report graded broadband internet access in terms of household and population penetration, speed and price across the 30 member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Canada ranked 19th over all, ahead of countries such as Australia and Ireland but behind the United States and leaders Sweden, Denmark and Japan.
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