Why does the OECD express subscribers “per 100 inhabitants instead” of “as a percentage of households”?
OECD subscriber data contains the total number of business and residential subscriber lines in a country. Normalising the number of broadband subscribers by the population provides an idea of relative penetration of subscriber lines. Expressing the number of subscriptions in terms of households would be misleading because some connections are to businesses. Normalising subscribers as a percentage of total households would consistently over-estimate broadband penetration.
