Luxembourg as a world's broadband leader

22 august, 2011

Luxembourg as a world's broadband leader

Luxembourg's leadership in information and communications technology has been confirmed once again. For the second year in a row, Luxembourg figures in the top 5 of the Broadband leadership ranking 2010 - an annual study from Saïd Business School and Oxford University (sponsored by Cisco). The study analyses broadband quality in 72 countries and 239 cities worldwide.

Luxembourg improved its position from the 9th place in 2008 to the 5th place in 2010.

The results of this third edition of the study show that Luxembourg is an “innovation economy” , enjoying leading broadband penetration “with take-up reaching 100% of households” and able to “'comfortably enjoying today's applications".

Quality was measured by evaluating download, upload (throughput) and latency capabilities of an Internet connection combined in a single 'Broadband Quality Score' for each country.
For more details on the report: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/prod_101710.html