Quote from: Peter R on June 23, 2015, 01:04:16 AM

I found some excellent data. Ookla has been empirically measuring upload and download speeds for over a decade and from all over the world, based on its speed test results:

http://explorer.netindex.com/maps

The pricing information is lacking, however.

Price hasn't changed much over the years once people transitioned from dialup to broadband in many places.

Here is a breakdown I did elsewhere -

Quote from: BitUsher on June 23, 2015, 12:01:47 AM

http://explorer.netindex.com/maps?country=United%20States

1/2008 5.86 Mbps
12/2008 7.05 Mbps
12/2009 9.42 Mbps
12/2010 10.03 Mbps
12/2011 12.36 Mbps
12/2012 15.4 Mbps
12/2013 20.62 Mbps
12/2014 31.94 Mbps

Quote from: BitUsher on June 23, 2015, 12:33:05 AM

Except, keep in mind those speed are the total combined upload and download speeds so 31.94 Mbps average means 21.88MBps download and 9.86MBps upload in 12/2014 thus the situation is worse than what you are even suggesting.

When you look at many other countries the growth is much slower as well. I was deliberately taking one of the better case scenarios to be generous.

all these numbers I am citing are only considering Broadband as well, and not mobile which is much slower and with much lower soft caps.