Europe rules the internet

they factored in the price of a broadband subscription to that calculation, Finland surely wouldn't be in the top 3.

I become pretty sceptic of this list when I see that Sweden is beneath Finland, Netherlands and France. My anecdotal experience would tell me Sweden is far ahead of any of these. Plenty of 100/10mbit connections around. Virtually no caps.

We're a poor and simple peasantry, whose sole sod is to eatin' humble pie.
Git over it. You must have us mishtooken with our off shore minders.
For starters, I'll have a beer, and keep those afters coming, pudding.


What a bunch of crap, this is a Thin-Tank like many other with the bunch of self-proclaimed Analysts.
Why do you even bother to look at them at all?
Have you checked their Whois on the domain?
They don't even own it themselves LOL

They do own the domain, they just use the address hiding service Bas, perhaps if you are going through the trouble of whoising you might want to first learn a bit about the system.
Although it's true that they are a 'foundation' which means it's just a bunch of people who got together and paid the 50 quid (or whatever it is) licence to carry the foundation label and they are they might have no more standing than your local fishing club.

I live in Singapore, and I can tell you it's hard to not get internet here. You get broadband free with your cable subscription, wireless broadband is even cheaper then normal broadband in Europe. And there is free WiFi on most of the main locations here on the island, and most people are using it too.

But not in the list, strange........

Perhaps they never heard of Singapore (and the same applies for Hong Kong)

I don't want to start any flame war, but my Aussie friends are always complaining about the terrible broadband infrastructure over there.

Which is understandable given the size of the landmass compared to the densely populated south-east England.

No way is Auss above the UK.


On a side note I just ditched Virgin.net and got Be Unlimited 24mb adsl2+... best move I ever made!

"Why do you even bother to look at them at all? "

but you found time to reply?

while fiber is just getting started here, the amount of cheap 20/1 ADSL mbit connections available for not a whole lot of money (starting at 25 euro a month) and having no caps, not even on most of the cheapest subscritions made sure almost all households in the netherlands are connected to the internet now using broadband.

Not bad for a not so big country like Greece

Turkey which is a bigger country is almost last along with Mexico


Does this article speak about the Government's infrastructure of a nation tied to internet? Or the general public access to the internet?

Recently Chinese people bypassed the American Population who use the internet actively on a daily basis....China's business infrastructure deals a lot with network activities too. They have over a Billion people.

Remember that its far easier to deeply root nations with smaller population than large populations. The United States does well being 15th place, being a 300 million populace..considering that Finland's population was 5.2 million in 2007. We have more American online gamers than the total population of Finland alone.

Im sure many of you see this....