ChrisPC
join:2002-01-30
Hermitage, TN | reply to paisp
Re: Quality vs. Cost The American way is piggish? Then how come Sweden, Japan, etc., have 100MB and we only have 6 or 8? |
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paisp
join:2004-02-16
Newtown, PA | said by ChrisPC:The American way is piggish? Then how come Sweden, Japan, etc., have 100MB and we only have 6 or 8? I'm not really sure. I'm sure the economics are different though... such as law suits, corporate fraud, national debt, taxes, etc. Its all relative don't you think? I think this all affects us all individually. Maybe if we took a good atom-bombing from Japan and then let them rebuild our country brand new, then maybe they'd have less money to splash around on getting people 100MB of useless bandwidth, for example.
But a better question is this. What would you do today differently than you would normally if you were suddenly given 100MB?
Don't you think also that when we see 100MB, and Japan has Gigabit, then we'd all complain too? Human nature.. especially in a country where we have everything in an instant.
Oh, by the way isn't fuel costs over there three or four times the cost of what we pay? Its all relative... |
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said by ChrisPC:The American way is piggish? Then how come Sweden, Japan, etc., have 100MB and we only have 6 or 8? because those countries actually think the internet is important for the future and have either ensured there is competition or have used government money.
This is in stark contrast to the U.S. where nothing technical (except weapons systems) is of interest to the current government and the telecom industry is being allowed to turn back into an unregulated monopoly/duopoly. |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
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said by ChrisPC:The American way is piggish? Then how come Sweden, Japan, etc., have 100MB and we only have 6 or 8? two words
"Corporate Greed"
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National debt? You have got to be kidding me. Japan's national debt is 170% of its GDP, yet that is not stopping it from spending government money amid its budget deficits to pay for this stuff:
»www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fac···ank.html
The United States has a much lower national debt, 64.70% of the GDP; thankfully we are not spending US dollars on building a national broadband infrastructure; we have enough stuff to pay for already. |
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Sweden and Japan are also *physically smaller* than most *states*, let alone the US.
Also, is the faster Swedish or Japanese connection available nationally, or only in certain cities, provinces/prefectures?
Lastly, NTT is still the only telco in Japan, is it not? Also, who provides telco service in Sweden? |
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