Telcos are refusing to publish the average speeds of their broadband plans

Telcos have came out in force refusing to publish the average speeds of their broadband speeds, giving excuses like the speed is affected by the cables, laptops/desktops, etc. However, someone has mentioned that IDA actually tests the actual speed of all the broadband plans by the 3 Telcos regularly and publishes it at their website here. You can take a look at the figures there.

The local speeds are closed to the advertised broadband speeds except for Starhub. However that is pretty useless as most of the content that we're looking at is most probably from outside Singapore. The speeds drop the moment it goes outside Singapore, affecting some Telcos more than others. Looking at those maximum available download throughput speeds, you can see that Singtel is the most consistent and closest to the advertised speeds. I'm quite surprised with M1's speeds though. M1 speeds look even better than Starhub's.

Would you still pay those broadband prices knowing that their maximum throughput may not even reach the advertised speeds? Note that the average speeds of the broadband plans were not even tested, which will definitely be slower that the maximum throughput. It's so easy to find the average broadband speeds in a first world country like the US.

It's amazing that a big country like US can publish the average broadband speeds but a small country like Singapore can't. I guess we're not first world yet. Eh?