Talk:Internet access worldwide

Local issues

Local issues belongs in a separate discussion, Talk:Broadband Internet access worldwide/Local issues rather here. --Marc Lacoste 15:08, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Internet in Asia

The Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Asia is redirected to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Internet_by_region where in fact I was coming from, when visiting this site. Also in this section there is nothing but two links to other pages. So I see no point in redirecting to the Internet#Internet_by_region section. - Bubu 84.183.248.174 (talk) 20:31, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Requested Expansion on Russia

Russia has a large emerging market in ADSL since early 2005. Could someone add Russia to the list and any information on it's ADSL status? Thank you in advance.

Units

bps and b/s and bits per second are interchangeable, in the same way as B/s, byte/s and bytes per second are.

The correct abbreviation for kilobits per second is kb/s or kbps, NOT Kb/s nor Kbps. Please refer to kbps.

Vandalism?

The Revision as of 16:36, 6 December 2005 has removed several parts of this article:

• - ==Argentina== (leaving 1 paragraph)
• + ==Australia==
• - ==Belgium== (leaving 2 paragraphs)
• - ==Brazil== (leaving 3 paragraphs)
• - ==Bulgaria==
• - ==Colombia==
• - ==Costa Rica==
• - ==Cyprus==
• - ==Denmark==
• ==France== removing most of the text, reverting to an old 2004 revision or so. This is the part I know, i have just written down the december 2005 situation. Since I don't know what is really true for other countries, I don't want to revert those edits now, but I will sunday if nobody is against.

The editor, 212.120.155.66 seems to have an habit of deleting information. Ths IP belongs to a small block, 212.120.155.64 - 212.120.155.127, owned by Cormac O'Murchu, Yac.com, IDM Business Park, Donegal, Galway (Ireland). yac.com seems to be a fax service with a susidiary in ireland, [Yac.ie]. --Marc Lacoste 10:30, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Continental categories

It could be interesting to make categories by continent: Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, to avoid the arm-length alphabetic list. International comparison is easier with proximity. --Marc Lacoste 09:30, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Done. --Marc Lacoste 14:00, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Requested move and merge

I propose to move DSL around the world here: DSL is only one broadband technology, and it could be interesting to replace it in a broader context and the addition of Broadband issues by country --Marc Lacoste 14:12, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

In favor of this move :

1. Marc Lacoste 14:12, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Against this move :

Done --Marc Lacoste 22:56, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Ireland POV

Can someone NPOV the Ireland section. Sentences like: "In Ireland, the telephone monopoly Eircom resisted the introduction of broadband because they were making so much money from per-minute billing on 56 kbit/s dialup." are not helpful. Even if this is true, the phrasing needs to be changed. ☆ CieloEstrellado 02:33, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Couldn't agree more - however there are groups in Ireland who will want you to believe this... note it's the only country with sweeping unproven statements like this.

Stephenjones 00:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

New Zealand contradictions

New Zealand seems to repeat itself and contradict itself in several places. UBS is mentioned several times independently without building on past mentions, as is ULLS. It also seems to be a partial attack on Telecom NZ (I agree with what is said - but it's not neutral).

I've substantially re-ordered the New Zealand section and attempted to make claims clear. Hopefully it's in a state that someone can add information easily too. Greg 00:50, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Unifying the article

At the moment the article feels like a load of others thrown together. We need to give each country section a common layout, for example a table with different options available, or a box with key information. Any other ideas?--robertvan1 21:38, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Playing Online Games & Downloading

Please, can anyone tell me is playing online games similar to downloading? Am not a techie so I've no idea. For example if I played an online game for an hour does it mean that I had been downloading for one hour??? Sisney dude 18:37, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes: you are uploading and downloading information all the time during gaming, although usually not as much as with a file download because that will use all your bandwidth. robertvan1 20:30, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Importantly for downloading you need high bandwidth, for most gaming you need low latency. Rich Farmbrough, 11:36 25 September 2006 (GMT).

Well if you're hosting games a high upstream bandwidth is needed. Grey Goshawk 19:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Dividing each country

With the advance of access technology there are several broadband internet media beside ADSL:

• Cable Internet DOCSIS 2.0.
• WiMax (more than 1 Mbps, up to 50 km), WiBro.
• Electric wire / Powernet.
• 3G Cellular (CDMA 2000-EvDO, WCDMA, HSPDA etc).
• Hotspot (Wireless 802.11).
• Stratellite.
• Leased line.
• VSAT.
• Laser.

Is it possible to divide each country into several divisions, similar to Uruguay and Indonesia?

Article requires updated Info

Countries with Adsl needs to be updated badly, especially major Asian countries.
Broadband is now offered at much higher speeds than 2mb. I dont know if it would be appropriate to include Adsl2, either way, information is out of date. --Unre4LITY 15:31, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Mobile Internet access worldwide

Let's expand this "Internet access worldwide" topic-family, with a "Mobile" section! Someone has created it! Let's help him to describe all the world Mobile Internet accesses!

Thx! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WikiMapiaBoy (talk • contribs) 14:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC).

Scope of the article

is it just me or is this turning more into free advertising for some companies in South american and Asia than an impartial list? I think we shouldn't really be mentioning prices, as it makes the page into an ad. Same could go for bandwidth quotas too though I suppose. Stormscape 08:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Where did Australia go?

Someone has clearly taken to the time to perform what I consider an act of vandalism on this article by poorly separating it into smaller articles. For example, click Oceania, where did Australia go? This used to contain a very healthy and accurate scope of Australian broadband.

Eh? Click on the link in the Oceania stub that says "Main article: Internet in Australia" and that's where you'll go. If the health and accuracy of that article are deficient, they can be improved there. Yes, the worldwide article was formerly huge and rapidly growing with national information. So, someone chopped it into five, and those five have in turn been cut up by different editors. Some editors decided to make new "BbIa in country x" articles, and some created BbIa sections in existing "Communications in country x" or "Internet in country x" articles.

If someone wants consistency between countries, they must do the work. It will likely be better to discuss the proposed uniform method before doing all the cutting, moving and pasting. My own preference would be the method used for Australia, but I'm too lazy to redo all the others to match that one, and some countries don't have an "Internet in country x" article and don't yet need one because their Internet service is either sparse or simple. For readers who want to go quickly from one country to another, even if it's on the other side of the world, perhaps this worldwide article should be the main article for a Category. Jim.henderson 06:34, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

More recent figures

The OECD has released more recent figures, from December 2006, rather than 2005; this article should be updated accordingly: [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.151.243.119 (talk) 16:03, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Backbone

Are there articles about the internet backbones?--85.179.97.132 (talk) 20:10, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Main links go to redirect pages directing to Internet#By region - a section that does not exist.

The used links "Internet in Asia,Europe,Oceania" all redirect to a non existing section of the article Internet. --He!ko (talk) 13:25, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Main links go to redirect pages directing to a section that does not exist.

Refer to sections "Where_did_Australia_go?" and "Main links go to redirect pages directing to..." directly above. (Background to proposed merge).