Mobile broadband penetration reaches 95% in OECD area
Mobile broadband penetration reaches 95% in OECD area
  • By Chun Go-eun (info@koreaittimes.com)
  • 승인 2017.02.03 06:50
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OECD, February 3, 2017/Korea IT Times--High-speed Internet use continues to grow in OECD countries with mobile broadband penetration reaching 95 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants in June 2016, up from 86 per 100 a year earlier, according to data released by the OECD on February 2(local time).

The addition of 123 million new mobile broadband subscriptions in the 35-country OECD area made a year-on-year rise of 11.3%, driven by continued growth in the use of smartphone and tablets, and lifted the OECD total to 1.214 billion subscriptions in a population of 1.27 billion people.

 Twelve countries – Japan, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, the US, Estonia, Australia, Korea, Norway, Iceland, New Zealand and Switzerland, in descending order of mobile subscriptions per capita – now lie above the 100% penetration threshold, up from nine countries a year ago.

Note: June 2016 data for Israel, Switzerland & the US are estimates. Colombia is in the process of accession to the OECD. Dedicated mobile data subscriptions are mostly data-only; standard mobile broadband subscriptions are mainly voice plus data.

Fixed-line broadband subscriptions in the 35-country OECD area reached 380 million as of June 2016, up from 363 million a year earlier and making an average penetration of 29.8%, up from 28.6%. Switzerland leads the pack with a penetration rate of 51 subscriptions per 100, followed by Denmark (43%), the Netherlands (42%), France (41%) and Korea (40%).

DSL remains the prevalent technology, making up 44.7% of fixed broadband subscriptions, but it continues to be gradually replaced by fibre, now accounting for 20.1% of subscriptions thanks to a 16% jump in fibre subscriptions since June 2015. Cable (32.2%) made up most of the rest.

Data on machine-to-machine communications, such as for Internet-connected vehicles, show that Sweden, New Zealand, Norway, Finland and the Netherlands remain the leaders in the number of M2M SIM cards in use, with the caveat that data is not yet fully comparable for all countries. Sweden counts 77 M2M SIM cards per 100 inhabitants – a much higher level than for most other OECD countries that provided data. Overall, M2M/embedded mobile cellular subscriptions grew by almost 20% in the last year in countries were the data was available.

The OECD’s broadband statistics cover the 35 OECD members plus accession country Colombia. You can download the underlying data, charts and broadband penetration maps for different countries at: www.oecd.org/internet/oecdbroadbandportal.htm

               
               
Rank    Data and voice subscriptions [Standard mobile broadband] Data-only subscriptions [Dedicated mobile data] Total (where breakdown not available) Total Total subscriptions  
1 Japan 95.7 50.8   146.4 185,667,492  
2 Finland 101.1 38.3   139.4 7,640,000  
3 Sweden 102.6 22.1   124.7 12,218,000  
4 Denmark 100.8 23.1   123.9 7,040,834  
5 United States     122.3 122.3 393,354,000  
6 Estonia 64.5 52.0   116.5 1,530,312  
7 Australia 91.3 25.1   116.4 28,005,000  
8 Korea 107.6 1.5   109.0 55,185,135  
9 Norway 93.2 9.1   102.3 5,311,892  
10 Iceland 70.0 31.8   101.8 336,367  
11 New Zealand 30.5 71.3   101.8 4,704,367  
12 Switzerland 95.4 5.8   101.2 8,393,800  
13 Ireland 88.3 7.6   95.9 4,453,436  
  OECD     95.1 95.1 1,213,996,424  
14 United Kingdom 83.3 8.4   91.7 59,702,240  
15 Spain 82.9 3.5   86.5 40,148,353  
16 Italy 72.9 12.4   85.4 51,836,798  
17 Netherlands 77.6 7.2   84.8 14,361,000  
18 Latvia 61.3 22.8   84.1 1,663,739  
19 Luxembourg 72.7 6.9   79.6 452,900  
20 Austria 49.7 28.6   78.2 6,744,000  
21 Czech Republic 68.4 8.8   77.2 8,133,598  
22 France 71.1 5.5   76.6 50,946,000  
23 Slovak Republic 65.1 10.5   75.5 4,096,310  
24 Germany 37.6 36.2   73.8 60,230,994  
25 Belgium 62.5 5.8   68.3 7,656,182  
26 Poland 46.7 18.6   65.3 25,109,910  
27 Canada 58.5 5.4   63.9 22,911,582  
28 Chile 58.2 3.3   61.5 11,102,177  
29 Turkey 56.8 1.7   58.5 45,322,149  
30 Mexico 56.7 0.3   57.0 69,015,219  
31 Slovenia 53.5 3.4   56.9 1,174,448  
32 Portugal 49.4 5.4   54.8 5,678,076  
33 Israel     51.3 51.3 4,300,000  
34 Greece 45.2 4.3   49.5 5,376,535  
35 Hungary 38.6 4.1   42.6 4,193,579  
               
  Colombia 25.9 17.4   43.3 20,382,321  
               
               
               

 

 


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