Good news (sorry): Spanish broadband is one of the best in the world

Maite Arcos, Digitalization and RRII Specialist in Orange

Probably this is not the best way to get the attention of the reader, since these words do not mention any videos that have been made viral on social networks, nor do they talk about fashion issues such as 5G or robotization. This is only good news...an anti-news? However, I can't resist dedicating some lines to it.There it goes: the average speed of fixed broadband in Spain is at the head of the main countries of the European Union.

At least this is what Cable.co.uk affirms after analyzing more than 63 million samples from 189 countries during a year until May 2017, collected by M-Lab with the collaboration of, among others, Google Open Source Research and the Planet Lab at Princeton University.

According to this study in Spain, the average speed of the broadband connection is 19.6 Mbps, almost at the same level as in the United States and ahead of Germany (18.8), United Kingdom (16.5) , France (13.43) and almost doubling the average speed in Italy (10.71).

Good news (sorry): Spanish broadband is one of the best in the world

at the head of Europe in broadband

It is true that I tend to see the glass half full since I got this news from headlines that stressed that "the average Internet speed in Spain does not exceed 20 megabytes." My surprise was that, as I read The data from the original study, which seemed more remarkable to me-although I am not a journalist, it is true-it was, not that the speed in our country did not exceed 20 Mbps, but that at broadband speed In Spain I was at the head of the leading countries in Europe and at the level of the United States, an issue that was not mentioned in much of the articles. Perhaps because it is only good news.

And, in addition, it is raining on wet.Spain also stands out for the extension of the coverage of ultra-broadband networks.Using comparable data from the European Commission, in 2015 there were already more than 76% of households that could hire NGA networks.This percentage places us above the EU average and taking more than 30 points ahead of France and Italy.

Good news (sorry): Spanish broadband is one of the best in the world

And although the data of the European Commission Scoreboard still does not take them into account, the current data is even better.Something we will be doing well.

Now we just need to get the most out of those networks. Because, it is true that we are making adequate progress in infrastructure investments, but it is no less true that there is still a significant proportion of people who are not interested in using broadband (approximately 1 in 5 Spanish) and the main reasons are in no case the shortage of networks.

In fact, according to the surveys on ICT equipment in the homes of the National Institute of Statistics, these people do not hire Internet access because they do not consider it useful (an alarming 70% of respondents) or because they simply do not know how to use it (40%).

On the other hand, according to the statistics of the CNMC, if we put in relation the number of homes in which the telecommunications companies have invested millions of euros to take the fiber optic and the number of homes that have hired that service the percentage It is around 17%.That means that, of the FTTH network investments already made, more than 80% are underutilized.Meanwhile, the EU Digital Agenda aims to ensure that, by 2020, 100% of the population has network coverage of at least 30Mbps.

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Perhaps we should devote more efforts to promoting the use of those networks that we already have? Would it be convenient, therefore, to put some more effort into also highlighting other headlines that, although less viral, Could they be masutile to continue promoting the modernization of our country?

I don't know, everyone who looks for their answers.I'm staying with the Good news that our networks are at the level of the best and prepared for citizens to enjoy all the advantages offered by the digital society.The challenge is to develop more and better services that improve their quality of life and make them known.

As I said, I tend to see the glass half full and I'm not a journalist.But, as a reader, I don't like the motto 'Bad news, good news' to gain ground in front of the classic 'No news, good news'. They will be my things...

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