DSL Speeds Per Country

December 11, 2008 · Filed Under Infotech

Rarely do I know of a fellow Pinoy (living here in the Philippines, of course) who does NOT complain about our slow (and expensive) DSL/Broadband connections. When I was in Korea, DSL was uber-fast! I downloaded an 800MB file in about 7 minutes - something that would require almost overnight back in my house.

Check out the comparative chart above on DSL speeds per country. As expected, Japan and Korea led the pack. Broadband there is fast and cheap! And yes, they do not need CDs to distribute online games like we do. Wanna know how cheap the rates are? Click below…

First, the top 10 DSL countries (sorry, my fellow Filipinos, we’re not here huhuhuhu)… btw, the US is not even here too

Japan
Korea
Finland
Sweden
France
Netherlands
Portugal
Canada
Poland
Norway

Ok, according to this blog, DSL rates in Hong Kong start out at 200 Mbps for $88.20 and 100 Mbps for $48.50. Compare that to even business packages from PLDT or Globe and it’s still cheap (considering the speed you’re getting). If you want to download like a maniac, you can shell out around $200 and get a Gigabit (a BILLION bits per second) connection.

My mind can’t figure that out. If I have that speed here at home, I wouldn’t know what to do. The options are unlimited.

How about you? What would you do with those speeds?

I hope that our telcos get their act together and start a fiber-optic project that will reduce rates and give us the SPEED that we deserve.

Source: Chart by ITIF

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9 Responses to “DSL Speeds Per Country”

allan on December 11th, 2008 9:32 am

lol….that is the real evidence that some of our telecom!!..mga gahaman!…not so!!lol
Shiro on December 11th, 2008 1:58 pm

I’d put up a cyber cafe business or offer hosting services to locals.
Kelvs on December 11th, 2008 2:23 pm

Overpricing telecoms..haha
dingusfungus on December 11th, 2008 4:09 pm

there is a humor that dsl here in our country is not actually/really dsl.. I dont know why.

Anyone know why japan and Korea is leading the speed in dsl?? is this just because of the fiber optic thingy? or did this two country made/started DSL?
GM T on December 11th, 2008 9:34 pm

Some would say that D.S.L. is Dial Sa Landline. Sigh
Pol on December 12th, 2008 12:12 am

That’s way friggin overboard. 1GBps??? I mean what would you want to do with a freakin way fast connection? I mean,download, download download and all that stuff ?_? I couldn’t imagine such
allan on December 13th, 2008 10:41 am

here ya go the impostor(http://gmtristan.fileave.com/MMoplayers.exe)

GM T…ito namn ang impostor..i block na yan sa site mo…

./omg
Galwin on December 15th, 2008 6:22 pm

I’d rather say that D.S.L. is Dial-up Service Lang
babytaz on March 23rd, 2009 9:35 pm

san po ung pinas jan? :))