On 22-Feb-2006, at 16:33, Simon Byrnand wrote:
So strictly speaking you could only make a broadband comparision with English speaking countries who source most of their content from overseas...or at minimum check the national/international traffic ratios to see if they're comparable...
There's a funny thing that happens when the cost of residential networking goes down -- demand for local content increases. When I started using the Internet in the UK in the early nineties there was very little local content. Now that the market has developed, there's a very large amount, and that despite the enormous flbre glut across the Atlantic which makes reaching the US very cheap compared to NZ. I haven't seen any analysis of the trends in local content versus subscriber uptake, but I'd be amazed if the massive increase in affordable cable and DSL access in the UK over the past few years hasn't had a lot to do with it. Joe