The Broadband Around The Planet Project.

We are building a “broadband profile” of the planet. What I would like to do is find contributors who are kind enough to write 250 words about the broadband situation in their country. In addition, I would love to get a list of:

1. Key Broadband Players
2. Main Access Technologies, like cable, or DSL
3. The price of bandwidth per megabit
4. Average Speeds available to consumers.
5. Anything else including links to some of the better blog posts about the “broadband situation” in that country.

Thanks
Om Malik opm@mac.com

Announcements

Sorry for being out of touch - flu and all. back in full gear, making some edits. ... Om

Please add the following tags, if relevant: Wireless Broadband if there is high speed wireless available in the country, and MegaBand, if there are 30 megabits/second or higher speeds available in the country. If the average connection is 256 kbps, lets tag those connections as MidBand.

Uruguay, France, Australia, Malaysia, India and The Netherlands are off to a flying start.

People

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Om Malik - US/San Francisco
Alejandro Panizza - Uruguay, Argentina
Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz - France Olivier Seres - France
Tariq Mustafa - Pakistan
Nik Cubrilovic - Australia and Asia/Pacific
Venkatesh Rangarajan - US/Phoenix
Lau Sie Bing - Malaysia
Shin Tonooka - Japan
Yannick Laclau - Spain
Jon Bøhmer - Norway
Henrik Torstensson - Sweden
David Orban - Italy
Akshay Mahajan - India
Sridhar Tonse Pai - India
Alex Moskalyuk - US/SF Bay Area
Riaz Kanani - UK/London
Robby Gulri - US/Atlanta
James Enck - Europe
Gregory Hoyl Jr. - Brazil
Navin Mittal - India
ePrasanna - India
Nitin Ahuja - India
Neil Schwartzman - South Africa
Johannes Lenz-Hawliczek - Germany
Lindsey Annison - UK/ABC
Alistair Stobie - Russia
Yusuf Goolamabbas - HongKong
Tom Foale - UK/London
Dirk van der Woude - The Netherlands
Sandeep Kaul - India
Bernard Moon - South Korea
Craig Plunkett - USA/New York
Vinukumar Ranganathan - India
Abhinav Modi - India
Alfredo Cruz - Mexico
Vishal Rao - India
Babak Farrokhi - Iran
Amogh Gulwady - Mumbai, India

Vincent Dekker - Netherlands

Should we all include USD pricing so that countries can easily be compared? Otherwise you will see 500ZAR, 30euro, $49.95 (aussie) and not know what is what

contributed by Nik Cubrilovic on Oct 8 11:22am

I think US prices would be better, given that its an easy conversion to other currencies. If folks have problems doing the conversion, thanks to Mac Tiger Conversion Widget, I can do this quickly

contributed by om malik on Oct 8 12:45pm

Apart from USD Prices, a sort of relative price comparision would be more indicative in the long run. Brad band price in relation to Per Capita Income of people having Internet Access, probably ?

contributed by Abhinav Modi on Jan 16 1:45pm

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