rocke86
join:2005-01-22
Groveland, IL | Pricey
600 terabytes were downloaded from the Xbox 360 Live network during E3. At this price it would cost $1,080,000,000! |
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Chris 313
Come get some
Premium
join:2004-07-18
Houma, LA
clubs: | Africa will never....
Africa will never see anything good or decent at those prices. It's a real pity the entire world, including most of the USA couldn't be wired like Japan cheaply, and reliably. |
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digitalfreak
join:2005-12-09
49533 | I think the reason that broadband is so cheap in Japan, Korea, etc. is that there are a lot of people crammed in a relatively small location.
On the other hand, the reason broadband in the US isn't cheaper is the greedy telecoms... |
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brianiscool
join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL | hmm
So it would cost $30 - $40 to go to an online store and order a product? |
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amungus
Premium
join:2004-11-26
America
clubs:
| that is outrageous!
way too much for that volume of data. It would be cheaper to send a dvd/tape backup image of something. could they not "cache" large portions of information and then serve it closer to their intended destinations??? this would seem one of the only solutions. at those prices, they could probably solve starvation in many places. sorry, but food and water are more important than a gig of nearly any information, unless of course that gigabyte of info somehow contained the cure for AIDS. |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
Premium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
 ·Comcast
1 edit | 2 Africas
I wonder how this breaks down between the politically "free-er" countries such as South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Kenya and Zambia and the rest of the continent.
Another point to consider... South Africa happens to be the country where Thawte, Inc. (the #2 security certificate vendor) is headquartered. Things can't be that bad!
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odreian615
join:2006-01-18
Chicago, IL | reply to digitalfreak
Re: Africa will never....
dont just say the telcoms the cablecos are greedy also |
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Sgtslaughtr
join:2005-08-29
Knox, IN | Oops
$20 for 1 gigabyte a month in US? Sprint is gonna pissed. I download 1 Gigabyte a day :0 and I only pay $55 a month. |
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Anonymous_
Anonymous
Premium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
clubs:
·RoadRunner Cable
·Time Warner Cable
 ·Time Warner VOIP
3 edits | Get satellite internet
satellite internet 99$ a month 10GB a month for that Price
your ping maybe 2000 ms but it's much cheaper the paying 1800$
and 20$ per gig is the usa is not right
i use 900+ Mega Bytes per day (using skype voip and web cam ) uses 75KB - 90KByte a sec up 75 -90kBytes
Down (other end also has a web cam)
online Gameing PS2 100 -200Kbit/s 1GB+ per day
computer # 2 uses a few gigs a day (myspace thing)
laptop few 100MB per day |
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jsuboh
join:2002-06-13
Earlimart, CA | Nigeria Email Scams
And the sad part of this story is that all that bandwidth is being used to send those darn Nigeria Email Scams. |
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72276539
Premium
join:2001-01-19
Atlanta, GA | reply to Chris 313
Re: Africa will never....
Oh now this is funny, its perfectly acceptable to say the US sucks but god forbid someone calls people out on it. Sorry for not spouting the company line.
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jabetcha
join:2003-02-13
Lake Mary, FL | Basic needs
Most of africa doesn't have the basic needs of food, water, and shelter for its occupants, so why is $1,800/GB data costs an issue? |
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AthlGrond
Premium,MVM
join:2002-04-25
Aurora, CO | So?
How do our costs compare to South Korea's? (Or put another way, why aren't they comparing the worst costs to the best?) |
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AthlGrond
Premium,MVM
join:2002-04-25
Aurora, CO | reply to jsuboh
Re: Nigeria Email Scams
Insightful!  |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN | Average price is a little off.
In America we pay for unlimited connections. I think sbc is around $15 a month for 3mbit. People download hundreds of gigabytes on such a connection. |
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P2PPirate2
join:2005-02-02
New York, NY | reply to jsuboh
Re: Nigeria Email Scams
lol, they send me a mail telling me to gave them my company account so they can wire 3 millions dollars which we will share without the world knowing. Idiots. |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 |  (topic offline) Boooo!
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Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs: | reply to jabetcha
Re: Basic needs
I was thinking the same thing. I would also, like to see how much of inhabited Africa is wired. Lots of Africa is rain forset, or hut towns. These are places that obviously have little to no need for internet conenctivity. |
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
Premium
join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA | Maybe when the genocide stops...
telecom corporations will be willing to set up shop and make it cheap. So long as warlord states continue to operate making it unsafe to deploy anything nothing will change. |
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