Lincoln998Premium
join:2005-03-24
Pleasant Grove, UT | Population density is NOT an excuse I believe one of the primary reasons the United States is now #16 in the world in broadband penetration, and likely to drop further, is that the incumbents who benefit from broadband scarcity are blocking the efforts of communities to organize and build their own broadband networks through public/private partnerships.
While South Korea and Japan are certainly more dense than the United States, Canada is dramatically LESS dense than the United States -- and Canada is 5th in the world in broadband penetration. Furthermore, both Sweden and Finland are ahead of the United States also, and I don't believe either of them are very dense.
Furthermore, both India and China are building broadband infrastructure at an astonishing rate, and aren't sitting around trying to decide if government involvement is "unfair" competition.
According to a recent best selling book, "The World is Flat", accountants in India using real broadband did 25,000 US tax returns in 2003, 100,000 in 2004, and are expected to do 400,000 in 2005. By 2010, they will do over half the tax returns in the USA -- if workers in the USA don't move up the food chain, they'll be lucky to get fast food jobs -- which are also starting to be out sourced. |
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 mrchrisOut and aroundPremium
join:2002-10-01
North Babylon, NY | I blame political bribes to the telcos/cablecos, FCC doing a halfassed job and telco/cableco CEOs being too fkn greedy.
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 roamer1sticking it out at you
join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA | reply to Lincoln998
said by Lincoln998:Canada is dramatically LESS dense than the United States While that is true overall, most of Canada's population is concentrated in a relatively small area (90% within 100-150 miles of the US border, and most of that in a relatively small number of urban areas.) The Nordic countries are similar to Canada.
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | reply to Lincoln998
The "accountants in India" are doing tax returns for 1/10 of what a US accountant would charge. THAT's why their market share is going up. By the way, who do you think they work for? That has nothing to do with broadband penetration. Those connections are most likely OCx and not some residential toy, and the "accountants in India" are most likely working at some office hovel contracted by H & R Block.
As an aside, how do you outsource a fast food job? Have the drive-through order taker in New Delhi? |
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| said by RadioDoc:As an aside, how do you outsource a fast food job? Have the drive-through order taker in New Delhi? Well actually... 
»barometer.orst.edu/vnews/display···8c59e2d8
»www.usatoday.com/money/industrie···cd_x.htm |
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | OK, now that's just insane. Imagine some call center voice coming out of a broken speaker on some drive through menu board...man, what's next? Virtual Food?
* sigh *
I'll be driving by McDonalds' corporate HQ in Oak Brook in about an hour. Maybe I should throw a Burger King bag on their lawn. |
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 John GaltForward, MarchPremium
join:2004-09-30
Happy Camp
kudos:3 | reply to RadioDoc
And who says it couldn't happen...?
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