Iceland comes first in broadband access

Who’d have thought it? BBC News Online: Iceland comes first in broadband.

According to the [OECD] Iceland has 78,017 broadband subscribers and South Korea 12,190,711.

TOP FIVE BROADBAND OECD COUNTRIES

Iceland: 26.7%
Korea: 25.4%
Netherlands: 25.3%
Denmark: 25%
Switzerland: 23.1%

The leading countries in broadband use per capita all had more than 25% of their net users subscribing to such a service. Iceland led the field on 26.7%.

By comparison, the UK was ranked 12th with 15.9%, just behind the US with 16.8%.