"Australia is ranked 28th on a 42 nation study by MBA students of Oxford University which highlighted each nation's ability to cope with next-generation web applications. THe study focused on countries in Europe, North America, the OECD, Brazil, Russia, India & China"
Best Broadband nations:
- Japan
- Sweden
- Netherlands
- Latvia
- Korea
- Switzerland
- Lithuania
- Denmark
- Germany
- Slovenia
They were properly to chicken-shit to include HK & Singapore, equipped with state of the art broadband infrastructures as well and would properly be sitting on the top tier.
But that's beside the point, it was a real slap to the face for Australia and I must say it felt really good. Australians are really proud of themselves, mate. And they have obvious reasons to be so. Strong economy, high standard of living etc etc.
But when it comes to technological stuff like computers, ipods and stuff. It has to be one of the last countries to catch on to the latest gadgets. (The only exemption being the 3G Iphone which was first released in here)
Other stuff like mobile phones, the highest memory card you can score, the speed of the current processor etc is pretty below par compared to technologically fast-paced asian countries like japan/korea/singapore/hk.
I'm not saying that they don't have high tech gadgets, it just takes longer for it to arrive on Australian shores, and that causes the price to inflate. For example, for SGD$100 you can get a 150gb external harddisk but for AUD$100 you may only get a 100gb model. (dollar to dollar comparison)
That's why most asians here (myself included) opt to get their tech stuff from overseas and ship it here. But aussies still prefer to buy their tech stuff here albeit the higher price. "What if the items are faulty?" they say. "But there is no warranty!" they complaint. "Non-australian items are of low quality."
I've even heard one of my colleagues complaining about entering Malaysian websites. He asked me why are Malaysian websites full of viruses? He's planning a trip over there and is searching for accomodation etc and he claims that whenever he logs on to Malaysia related sites his pc gets attacked by virus.
Have you heard anything more absurd?
Back on the broadband issue. Would you believe that they actually put a cap on most broadband plans over here? It is so annoying to have to keep track of our online data and avoid having to pay for excess usage. I mean, broadband is supposed to be unlimited. There is no other way around it.
At the beginning of the year they released the ADSL2+ which has theoretical speed of 20mbps. (i'm currently on this plan) Truth be told I felt the 6mpbs plan I used in Singapore was about the same speed but more stable compared to the ADSL2+.
So in your face Australia! Your broadband sucks and you deserve to be No. 28. haha
And to my colleague: "You'd better not travel to Malaysia. Our country is swarmed with viruses and they will eat you alive the moment you step foot on our tanah tumpah darahku!!!"
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