Fiber-optic OECD Survey by Silvia Szarkova

Organization of economical co-operation and development, worldwide known rather than OECD, has recently released a broadband kind of study, which data showed the fiber- optic connections in single countries of the organization. The result of it is not very surprising, considering the most high-tech countries of the world the most connected with fiber-optic cable.

Fiber-optic is the latest hit in connecting to the Internet with super-fast links. According to the study released by OECD in Amsterdam, Korea and Japan are the winners. Maybe not too much surprising for these two technical countries, which outstand of all Asian tigers countries.

The statistics showed that Korea had 12.2 fiber-optic connections per 100 inhabitants in June compared to previous level of 10.4 percent during last survey in December of 2007. Then there is still a big rate of other kinds of connection: 10.5 percent through cable TV networks and 8.4 using DSL technology.

OECD economist Taylor Reynolds says: "It's a big shift. There's a shift in the industry towards fibre and we're seeing it first in Korea and Japan, " valuing the importance of fiber- optic connection in new millenium.

Japan does not hasitate. Fibre connection is 10.2 percent out of 100 inhabitants, DSL is 9.6 percent and cable is only 3.1 percent. After Korea and Japan there is a huge gap, possibly followed just by Sweden with 6 fibre-optic broadband connections. But, it is interesting to see that Korea’s single fibre penetration is higher than that the summary of five OECD countries: Greece, Poland, the Slovak republic, Turkey and Mexico.

Finally, the most wired country of the world is Denmark with 36.7 total connections, but most of those are DSL connections.

In Europe, many operators have given up of fiber-optic connection, with often goes with high initial costs.


related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081023/tc_nm/us_telecoms_broadband;_ylt=Ar5nrnJQHVRppYBbVIFJDe6s0NUE

by Silvia Szarkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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