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Telecommunications Letter: Market Clarity hits back at OECD in broadband stats battle
Telecommunications Letter: Market Clarity hits back at OECD in broadband stats battle | Letter: Market Clarity hits back at OECD in broadband stats battle |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Wednesday, 23 May 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 3 From Shara Evans Managing Director Market Clarity The OECD has criticised the accuracy of some data points contained within our recent report on broadband in OECD countries. This criticism has ignored the comprehensive list of nearly 70 references (including URLs) to national statistics and regulatory publications from which Market Clarity's data is drawn, and the detailed discussion within the report on ambiguities pertaining to these national data sets. We welcome factual correction, because given the enormous weight given to broadband "standings" around the world, we consider two aspects of the analysis to be absolutely vital: the information should be correct, and the data set should be subject to scrutiny vis-à-vis published data from official national sources. Having put our belief in scrutiny on the record, we welcome it ourselves, and we look forward to the chance to enhance our data set with input from our colleagues in other countries, and once again make this information available for public inspection. We also point out that other knowledgeable commentators, such Andrew Schmitt at Nyquist Capital (USA) describe the data in Market Clarity's report as "simply the best global broadband stats I've seen..." Nonetheless, we need to look at the big picture - and debating the validity of specific data points ignores key findings in our report. Indeed, it is Market Clarity's view that the broadband picture is not fully appreciated by looking at a single metric - broadband access connections per 100 inhabitants - a view that is shared by Australia's Minister for Communications and the US Department of State, who in an April 2007 letter to the OECD, said: "We are concerned about the methodology on which the new statistics were based, and their failure to capture important factors particularly their reliance on user subscriptions as a measure of broadband use." (Ambassador David A. Gross, United States Coordinator, International Communication and Infrastructure Policy, US Department of State) |
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