WASHINGTON — Simply going online isn’t good enough to make full use of cyberspace. Without the high-speed connectivity that broadband offers, it’s difficult, if not downright impossible, to make full use of what can be done via the Internet. As such, the push for greater broadband access is gaining momentum worldwide, and the latest global report card on high-speed access showed that some of the most unlikely countries are at the forefront of the mass Internet revolution. According to the Organization for Economic and Cooperation and Development in a Thursday release, Iceland currently boasts the highest penetration rate among the group’s 30 richest nations in the world, with 26.7 percent of the population having broadband access. South Korea came in at second place at 25.4 percent, while the Netherlands followed with 25.3 percent, and Denmark ranked fourth with 25.0 percent. For the OECD membership as a whole, broadband subscription increased to 158 million by December 2005 from 136 million in June 2005, with 13.6 people subscribing to broadband per 100 inhabitants. The strongest per-capita subscriber growth came from Iceland, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, and Australia, each of which added more than six subscribers per 100 inhabitants during […]