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	Broadband: A Comparison

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8-6-2007 8:09 AM

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<FONT size="2">In Japan net users have 100Mbps lines, 10 times higher than the OECD average.
</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6900697.stm"><FONT size="2">Japan's price for broadband per megabit per second is the lowest in the OECD at $0.22 (11p), said the report.  The most expensive is Turkey at $81.13 (£40.56).
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6900697.stm"><FONT size="2">In the US, the cheapest megabit per second broadband connection is $3.18 (£1.59) while in the UK it is $3.62 (£1.81).
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6900697.stm"><FONT size="2">Subscribers to Japan's fibre networks can also upload at the same speed they can download, which is not possible with ADSL (broadband over a telephone line) and most cable subscriptions.
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                            CHEAPEST ENTRY LEVEL BROADBAND PER MONTH*
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<DIV class="mva"><DIV class="bull">Sweden $10.79</DIV>
<DIV class="bull">Denmark $11.11</DIV>
<DIV class="bull">Switzerland $12.53</DIV>
<DIV class="bull">US $15.93</DIV>
<DIV class="bull">France $16.36</DIV>
<DIV class="bull">Netherlands $16.85</DIV>
<DIV class="bull">New Zealand $16.86</DIV>
<DIV class="bull">Italy $17.63</DIV>
<DIV class="bull">Ireland $18.18</DIV>
<DIV class="bull">Finland $19.49</DIV>
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<DIV class="mva"><I>*Source: OECD. Figures for October 2006</I></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6430EB57-4C23-404A-A5F9-1C8510A971CD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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