Canada continues to be tops among the G7 group of industrialized nations when it comes to relative number of high-speed Internet connections in the country, according to the most recent stats released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The OECD measured 23.8 broadband subscribers in Canada per 100 people. But while that was tops in the G7, that was only good enough for ninth spot among the 30 OECD countries. Denmark was tops with 31.9 subscribers per 100 people.
The U.S. was number 15 in the OECD and 5th in the G7 at 19.6 broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants.
And get this: Japan leads the OECD in fibre connections directly to the home with 7.9 million fibre-to-the-home subscribers in December 2006. Fibre subscribers alone in Japan outnumber total broadband subscribers in 23 of the 30 OECD countries. (!)
Isn't this in large part because the Liberal government began a program to hook up all the schools in the country?