Costs Around The World: Internet Access
October 1, 2009
When it comes to Internet access, not all plans are created equal. The data transfer speeds vary greatly around the world, as does the cost for basic access. As you can see, in Japan Internet speeds are blazing fast and cheap compared to those less fortunate users in other countries. In the United States, Internet users pay more for way less, but are still better off than users in Greece who connect at the slowest speeds in the world.
Note: Because minimum, maximum, and average speeds vary by country and region, we normalized the data to calculate speed and cost per 1MBPs in each area.
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Greece is not “one of the slowest in the world”. Its number 20 in the world. Read the title of the picture.
Comment by Chris — October 1, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
No price-per-month label for Australia?
Comment by Reardon — October 1, 2009 @ 2:59 pm
What about the download caps in each country?
Comment by Smee — October 1, 2009 @ 3:24 pm
Who paid for this? USA is ranked 65th in the World for its internet speed and cost per mbs. Asia was left out and their cost and speed is much lower then here, that is why my server is in Taiwan. You really think comparing 30 Countries gives any idea of the real picture
Comment by Bill — October 1, 2009 @ 3:47 pm
To think that the usual broadband fee without bandwidth cap per month for a 1 mbps is about rm 88 (1 usd is about rm 3 something) over here; I consider poland cheap.
Comment by nakichiam — October 1, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
People in the US pay a flat rate for unlimited usage. How can that be compared to countries with bandwidth caps and variable billing?
Comment by Nathaniel Flick — October 1, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
My own personal experience of living in Australia and the UK tells me these figures cannot be correct. In Australia speeds are generally low (0.5 mbps) in all but the centre of our capital cities, and costs around $70 US for 40GB. In the UK, speeds are generally 3mbps, with fair availability of 20mbps, and costs around $30 US for uncapped, unlimited data.
Comment by Andrew — October 1, 2009 @ 10:13 pm
I’m from Finland and I don’t think the average speed here is anywhere near that number. The cost per Mbit seems right though.
Comment by Johan — October 1, 2009 @ 11:54 pm
You might want to revise the Iberian peninsula part of your drawing of Europe. It is somewhat…mangled. Portugal seems to have either sunk into the Atlantic or taken flight and hovered over to Spain.
Comment by Alma — October 2, 2009 @ 2:10 am
In portugal you can get a 100mbps/20mbps fiber optic connection, with no download caps for 50 euros, from the 3 major ISP’s (triple play service, TV, Phone, Internet) and one company has a simetric 150mbps (down and up) internet only for 30 euros, no download limits.
Comment by Shodan — October 2, 2009 @ 4:56 am
I live in south africa so this is especially agitating….
Comment by alfred — October 2, 2009 @ 6:11 am
Thanks for the ping on Portugal map issue, we’ll have that fixed ASAP. The bulge out of Spain should have been a dead giveaway…
Comment by BillShrink Guy — October 2, 2009 @ 6:22 am
Things in this infographic maybe skewed in some ways, but i can attest to the ridiculous speeds attained in Japan.
The two different companies I have had here so far have out preformed comcast in every way. Comcast seems like telegraph technology compared to what im getting here.
Comment by vagueさん — October 2, 2009 @ 10:34 am
Actually, the max speeds in Portugal are 200M/10M @ 100€ and 1G symmetric @ 250€ for uncaped triple play, but the geographic availability is limited.
http://www.zon.pt/OnlineStore/Services/Packs.aspx
Comment by cm — October 22, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
It just means that US is more efficient at using their small bandwidth. Even though we are the one of the slowest internet providers, no once can beat US for its innovation in internet pioneering technologies.
Comment by Charles — October 27, 2009 @ 5:43 pm
in korea my Pc is like a old version of dual core (so the pc is like kinda old) but still download speed is up to 8mgs so it downloads a movie in about 2minutes
and the internet speed is 100M. My friend uses internet speed of 1000M but the speed he actaully gets is about 500M
cause his PC is a reck
And if you go to a PC cafe(where you pay money to use one) it’s 1000M cause the PC’s are good. at PCcafes games big as 10gigas download less than 8minutes
and the price here are 100M/10mgs = 17$ 300M/?=28$ 1000M/??=35$
it’s absolutly a world of internet here.
Comment by romero — October 27, 2009 @ 10:35 pm
Hi, could you please post also the raw data you used to compile this? I’ve tried searching for your stated source “internet world stats broadband penetration” and unfortunately can’t track it down. Thanks! I’m hoping to do some telecommuting from outside of the US while traveling and it would be helpful for my planning my itinerary.
Comment by Dav — October 28, 2009 @ 7:35 am
High cost for Mexico is due the monopoly of Telmex, which is proprietor Carlos Slim one of but the rich ones of the world. poor Mexico
Comment by Juan Carlos — October 28, 2009 @ 6:05 pm
What about South America? Chile is on the forefront of technology regarding internet usage. Prices are reasonable, speed is definitely good, and there is WIFI provided by the government for free in a few cities, something that you don’t see in countries like France, for example.
Why isn’t South America considered?
Comment by mokenke — October 29, 2009 @ 9:10 pm
Dear,
Asia is the hot spot now.. You blew your information by ignoring countries other than Korea and Japan..I am from Singapore and I feel that its one of the best!
Comment by VSRangarajan — November 4, 2009 @ 7:57 pm