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Romania Has The Fastest IPv6 Adoption Rate

44 points by RaduTyrsina 14y ago

mtgx 14y ago
Romania has 2 major ISP's, one that has always been very innovative, forward-thinking, has kept prices as low as possible (100 Mbps, unlimited data, for $13 a month, in pretty much any urban area in the country, and even some rural ones), and the other who used to be the landline/dial-up monopoly, but right now are playing catch-up to the other one a bit, but still doing pretty well. We're still waiting for carriers to start adopting LTE in Europe, though, and it probably won't happen until 2014 or so. Hopefully, they'll jump straight to LTE Advanced by then.
- RaduTyrsina 14y ago
  Yep. I can only hope that this Internet activity in Romania will yield more online-focused industries.
- mariusmg 14y ago
  Are you working for RDS ? :)
  - RaduTyrsina 14y ago
    :) They do deserve the praise, Marius
- jessor 14y ago
  I'm living in Romania now and can confirm this. My friends in Germany can only dream about such uplinks. Internetwise, Germany feels like a Second World Country for me now. The rds founder seems like a very smart man. I never met him but I like him already :) Let's see if Cluj can continue to build and hold the startup scene there.
  - ccozan 14y ago
    I second that. I'm going from Germany every August to Romania and it feels like going to Internet Worderland. Cabletv + 100mbs unlimited for 8 euros, prepaid 3G cards with 5000mins+internet a 5euros, lots of free wireless. Not to mention the cool operator Zapp ( based on EVDO ), had 2Mbps in on a isolated mountain summit! Meanwhile in Germany pretty much is a hindrance, beginning with DSL ( i hate the uplink ). Not to mention that Vodafone Germany is billing 3g internet like is made of gold. EDIT: formatting
    - sneak 14y ago
      Contact me, please.
- rradu 14y ago
  Worth noting that Romania also has the second-fastest Internet speeds in the world - http://www.techspot.com/news/45566-us-ranked-26th-in-global-internet-speed-south-korea-number-one.html http://www.techspot.com/news/45566-us-ranked-26th-in-global-...
  - RaduTyrsina 14y ago
    Yes Radu, wanted to add that myself. thanks!
sakthig 14y ago
No .. it is Bhutan .. with 8.37% adoption ;)
- RaduTyrsina 14y ago
  Indeed! Just that I couldn't see it on the map, too small! :)
- liquidsnake 14y ago
  And a population of 3.6% of Romania... I think we can find a 700k pop city in Romania with a higher adoption than that :)
  - RaduTyrsina 14y ago
    Indeed, but he's still right and I apologize for my error. But I couldn't really find Bhutan there :)
- userulluipeste 14y ago
  The first thing I've wondered about was "how come smaller countries (with possible only one ISP) aren't on top"? For City-states as Andorra, San-Marino, Monaco or Vatican, that figure can jump from 0 to 100 right away. As for Buthan... I didn't knew they had any IT infrastructure!
mgrouchy 14y ago
Apparently Romania is also popular for Cybercrime, http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_hackerville_romania/all/1 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_hackerville_romania... , related?
- RaduTyrsina 14y ago
  Yep, that is correct. Check this, also http://www.maindevice.com/2012/05/29/anonymous-romania-arrested/ http://www.maindevice.com/2012/05/29/anonymous-romania-arres...
- ovi256 14y ago
  Well, it's the unfortunate result of several trends colliding: little economic opportunity for the youth of the 'lost generations' of the '90s, a largely well educated population, leaning a lot towards technical subjects, cheap internet access, knowledge of the English language, and wide spread regard for laws as guides rather than rigid rules.
- mtgx 14y ago
  A funny story. When Bill Gates came to Romania to launch their Microsoft branch here, and before he gave his speech, the president (still in power now) made a "joke" about how pirating Windows has helped Romania tremendously in the IT sector over the years. I'm not a big fan of the president, but to say that before the founder of Microsoft and before a crowd (and on TV, too), takes a lot of guts.
  - sugusugu 14y ago
    or a lot of stupidity
darren_ 14y ago
As someone who's been watching these statistics obsessively for a while now, the most impressive part is how fast Romania's risen - they've gone from zero to 6% in literally a couple of months.
zokier 14y ago
I wonder why Norway has 2x adaptation compared to neighboring Finland and Sweden?
mariusbutuc 14y ago
Unfortunately the article doesn't expand much useful information beyond the title... TL;DR: > According to Google statistics, Romania leads the way with a 6.55% adoption rate, followed by France with 4.67%. Japan is on the third place so far with 1.57% but it seems here “users still experience significant reliability or latency issues connecting to IPv6-enabled websites.”

44 points by RaduTyrsina 14y ago

mtgx 14y ago

Romania has 2 major ISP's, one that has always been very innovative, forward-thinking, has kept prices as low as possible (100 Mbps, unlimited data, for $13 a month, in pretty much any urban area in the country, and even some rural ones), and the other who used to be the landline/dial-up monopoly, but right now are playing catch-up to the other one a bit, but still doing pretty well. We're still waiting for carriers to start adopting LTE in Europe, though, and it probably won't happen until 2014 or so. Hopefully, they'll jump straight to LTE Advanced by then.

RaduTyrsina 14y ago
Yep. I can only hope that this Internet activity in Romania will yield more online-focused industries.
mariusmg 14y ago
Are you working for RDS ? :)
- RaduTyrsina 14y ago
  :) They do deserve the praise, Marius
jessor 14y ago
I'm living in Romania now and can confirm this. My friends in Germany can only dream about such uplinks. Internetwise, Germany feels like a Second World Country for me now. The rds founder seems like a very smart man. I never met him but I like him already :) Let's see if Cluj can continue to build and hold the startup scene there.
- ccozan 14y ago
  I second that. I'm going from Germany every August to Romania and it feels like going to Internet Worderland. Cabletv + 100mbs unlimited for 8 euros, prepaid 3G cards with 5000mins+internet a 5euros, lots of free wireless. Not to mention the cool operator Zapp ( based on EVDO ), had 2Mbps in on a isolated mountain summit! Meanwhile in Germany pretty much is a hindrance, beginning with DSL ( i hate the uplink ). Not to mention that Vodafone Germany is billing 3g internet like is made of gold. EDIT: formatting
  - sneak 14y ago
    Contact me, please.
rradu 14y ago
Worth noting that Romania also has the second-fastest Internet speeds in the world - http://www.techspot.com/news/45566-us-ranked-26th-in-global-internet-speed-south-korea-number-one.html http://www.techspot.com/news/45566-us-ranked-26th-in-global-...
- RaduTyrsina 14y ago
  Yes Radu, wanted to add that myself. thanks!

sakthig 14y ago

No .. it is Bhutan .. with 8.37% adoption ;)

RaduTyrsina 14y ago
Indeed! Just that I couldn't see it on the map, too small! :)
liquidsnake 14y ago
And a population of 3.6% of Romania... I think we can find a 700k pop city in Romania with a higher adoption than that :)
- RaduTyrsina 14y ago
  Indeed, but he's still right and I apologize for my error. But I couldn't really find Bhutan there :)
userulluipeste 14y ago
The first thing I've wondered about was "how come smaller countries (with possible only one ISP) aren't on top"? For City-states as Andorra, San-Marino, Monaco or Vatican, that figure can jump from 0 to 100 right away. As for Buthan... I didn't knew they had any IT infrastructure!

mgrouchy 14y ago

Apparently Romania is also popular for Cybercrime, http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_hackerville_romania/all/1 http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_hackerville_romania... , related?

RaduTyrsina 14y ago
Yep, that is correct. Check this, also http://www.maindevice.com/2012/05/29/anonymous-romania-arrested/ http://www.maindevice.com/2012/05/29/anonymous-romania-arres...
ovi256 14y ago
Well, it's the unfortunate result of several trends colliding: little economic opportunity for the youth of the 'lost generations' of the '90s, a largely well educated population, leaning a lot towards technical subjects, cheap internet access, knowledge of the English language, and wide spread regard for laws as guides rather than rigid rules.
mtgx 14y ago
A funny story. When Bill Gates came to Romania to launch their Microsoft branch here, and before he gave his speech, the president (still in power now) made a "joke" about how pirating Windows has helped Romania tremendously in the IT sector over the years. I'm not a big fan of the president, but to say that before the founder of Microsoft and before a crowd (and on TV, too), takes a lot of guts.
- sugusugu 14y ago
  or a lot of stupidity

darren_ 14y ago

As someone who's been watching these statistics obsessively for a while now, the most impressive part is how fast Romania's risen - they've gone from zero to 6% in literally a couple of months.

zokier 14y ago

I wonder why Norway has 2x adaptation compared to neighboring Finland and Sweden?

mariusbutuc 14y ago

Unfortunately the article doesn't expand much useful information beyond the title... TL;DR: > According to Google statistics, Romania leads the way with a 6.55% adoption rate, followed by France with 4.67%. Japan is on the third place so far with 1.57% but it seems here “users still experience significant reliability or latency issues connecting to IPv6-enabled websites.”