Over half of Bangladesh's 160 million population now use internet: BTRC

[Nilgiri]

Ok im not entirely in with this crusade of yours.. But it's still funny

TLDR;

Bangladesh basically counts raw internet connections instead of actual individual users.....and then compares with the stats of other countries that use the latter metric ....this apples to oranges trend happens in many more things in Bangladesh in general. In that thread, it goes into nitty gritty actually of how BD does not use many international standards and methodology for even its HF economic data, and that the BD govt did not even accept this problem in the first place (ESCAP assessment, hidden from view unless you go look for it).

@Kami leone this is the fundamental reason behind what you have correctly perceived as well

They even say the god damned number (where it comes from):

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission or BTRC in a recent report said the internet connections in the country stood at 81.66 million at the end of November.

but then hope no one questions the 1:1 asserted correlation with ACTUAL USERS (gee absolutely no one in say the top 10% of income has multiple connections right?...not to mention the effect of businesses and gateway structuring. ZERO effect on this 1:1 right?).

 

[MAB]

Too much number fudging from Bangladesh sometimes.

 

[Baby Leone]

okay so with that much more then Pakistan users and more penetration then India and Pakistan....how much is the E-commerce Industry of Bangladesh? it should be bigger then Pakistan as more internet users and bigger per capita (as per some bangladeshis) may i know e commerce industry size of Bangladesh and how much online shopping people do and how many freelancers from bangladesh are registered?.

 

[Gibbs]

TLDR;

Bangladesh basically counts raw internet connections instead of actual individual users.....and then compares with the stats of other countries that use the latter metric ....this apples to oranges trend happens in many more things in Bangladesh in general. In that thread, it goes into nitty gritty actually of how BD does not use many international standards and methodology for even its HF economic data, and that the BD govt did not even accept this problem in the first place (ESCAP assessment, hidden from view unless you go look for it).

@Kami leone this is the fundamental reason behind what you have correctly perceived as well

They even say the god damned number (where it comes from):

I thought so too, Somewhere i read that mobile connection in India is something like 88% and Sri Lanka 102%, Which means there are more phones than the population, And theoretically all of them are connected to the internet via mobile but in reality it's not so

 

[Nilgiri]

I thought so too, Somewhere i read that mobile connection in India is something like 88% and Sri Lanka 102%, Which means there are more phones than the population, And theoretically all of them are connected to the internet via mobile but in reality it's not so

Right, then take a developed country like here (Canada). If we go by assertion each connection = seperate user, our population would be lot closer to say US level .

In the end dedicated on the ground survey (asking do you use internet regularly?) is really the only adequate way (Esp for developing country) to see what the user/actual internet penetration rate is.

Total connections is useful to use with things like total bandwidth supplied/consumed to get an idea of the average speed and data "depth" of average connection etc.....actual user base size...not so much. Many businesses for example have massive number of connections much of the time (they often buy a whole dedicated gateway spectrum and technically every IP connection in the range is open and would be counted) that would distort the connection/user ratio (along with rich and middle class folk who have multiple devices internet, phone, tablet etc etc...and increasingly even poorer folks who run businesses regarding internet access to other poor folk)