Les Québécois et les Canadiens comptent-ils vraiment parmi les mieux servis sur le plan Internet ?

vendredi 23 octobre 2009

Pour le compte de la Federal Communications Commission (FCC), le Berkman Center for Internet & Society de l’Université Harvard vient de terminer le premier jet d’une étude comparative de la qualité des services Internet offerts aux États-Unis et ailleurs dans le monde. Ce document, qui pourra être corrigé à la suite des commentaires des lecteurs, souligne notamment qu’en matière de branchement à Internet haute vitesse, le Canada ne mérite pas du tout l’excellente réputation qu’il a acquise, en partie à cause de la faible pénétration des services Internet mobiles dans ce pays.

« Canada, notent les auteurs, is often thought of as a very high performer, based on the most commonly used benchmark of penetration per 100 inhabitants. Because our analysis includes important measures on which Canada has had weaker outcomes—prices, speeds, and 3G mobile Next Generation Connectivity broadband penetration—in our analysis it shows up as quite a weak performer, overall (nos italiques). Most other countries do not move quite as much from what that most common benchmarking measure describes, but countries like Switzerland and Norway nonetheless are not as strong performers as they are usually perceived to be, while France exhibits much better performance than usually thought because of its high speeds and low prices ».

Source:
http://www.fcc.gov/stage/pdf/Berkman_Center_Broadband_Study_13Oct09.pdf. Pour un sommaire de l’étude :
http://www2.canoe.com/techno/nouvelles/archives/2009/10/20091019-144409.html.