Ireland now has only 9.2 broadband connections per 100 people with a total of 372,300 subscribers in June. Ireland ranked 23rd out of 30 countries in the 2005 survey of broadband penetration for the world's industrialised nations.

This rank has just been overtaken by the Czech Republic, who has switched positions with Ireland.

Despite Ireland's drop in ranking to 24th, the penetration in Ireland is up from 6.7 people per 100 in 2005.

Broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants, by technology, June 2006

	DSL	Cable	Other	Total	Rank	Subscribers
Denmark	17.4	9.0	2.8	29.3	1	1 590 539
Netherlands	17.2	11.1	0.5	28.8	2	4 705 829
Iceland	26.5	0.0	0.7	27.3	3	80 672
Korea	13.2	8.8	4.5	26.4	4	12 770 911
Switzerland	16.9	9.0	0.4	26.2	5	1945 358
Finland	21.7	3.1	0.2	25.0	6	1309 800
Norway	20.4	3.8	0.4	24.6	7	1137 697
Sweden	14.4	4.3	4.0	22.7	8	2 046 222
Canada	10.8	11.5	0.1	22.4	9	7161 872
United Kingdom	14.6	4.9	0.0	19.4	10	11 622 929
Belgium	11.9	7.4	0.0	19.3	11	2 025 112
United States	8.0	9.8	1.4	19.2	12	56 502 351
Japan	11.3	2.7	4.9	19.0	13	24 217 012
Luxembourg	16.0	1.9	0.0	17.9	14	81303
Austria	11.2	6.3	0.2	17.7	15	1460 000
France	16.7	1.0	0.0	17.7	16	11105 000
Australia	13.9	2.9	0.6	17.4	17	3518 100
Germany	14.7	0.3	0.1	15.1	18	12444 600
Spain	10.5	3.1	0.1	13.6	19	5917 082
Italy	12.6	0.0	0.6	13.2	20	7697249
Portugal	7.9	5.0	0.0	12.9	21	1355 602
New Zealand	10.7	0.5	0.6	11.7	22	479 000
Czech Republic	3.9	2.0	3.5	9.4	23	962 000
Ireland	6.8	1.0	1.4	9.2	24	372 300
Hungary	4.8	2.9	0.1	7.8	25	791 555
Poland	3.9	1.3	0.1	5.3	26	2 032 700
Turkey	2.9	0.0	0.0	3.0	27	2128 600
Slovak Republic	2.2	0.5	0.2	2.9	28	155 659
Mexico	2.1	0.7	0.0	2.8	29	2950 988
Greece	2.7	0.0	0.0	2.7	30	298 222

Source: OECD.org