Switzerland top of broadband ranking

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Paris – Switzerland has topped for the first time the fixed broadband ranking of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with 39.9 subscribers per 100 inhabitants, followed closely by the Netherlands (39.1) and Denmark (37.9).

The OECD average is 25.6, according to new OECD statistics.

Fixed wired broadband subscriptions reached 314 million in the OECD area at the end of 2011, although growth slowed to 1.8 per cent in the second half.

Year-on-year subscriptions rose by 4.1 per cent.

Greece, Poland and Chile experienced the highest growth, of six per cent, to reach 21.8, 15.0 and 11.7 respectively.

The overall share of DSL subscriptions continues to decrease (55.8 per cent), to the benefit of cable (30 per cent) and, especially, fibre-to-the-home subscriptions that now represent 13.7 per cent of the total number of fixed broadband subscriptions.

Wireless broadband subscriptions showed healthy growth of over 13 per cent in the last six months and Korea (100.6) and Sweden (98.0) continue to top the table.

The global number of wireless broadband subscriptions in OECD countries totals 667 million, up from 590 million in June 2011.
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