France Makes Local Loop Unbundling Work > High Density

reply to KrK

Re: High Density

Let's compare apples to apples shall we, and not include places like Alaska in the population density argument.

Population per sq. kilometer by state and of France

1 New Jersey 438.00
2 Rhode Island 387.35
3 Massachusetts 312.68
4 Connecticut 271.40
5 Maryland 209.23
6 New York 195.18
7 Delaware 154.87
8 Florida 114.43

France (Metropolitan) 110

Outside of the cities, France has huge tracts of green farmland and lots of mountainous terrain. It has a lower population density than the EU in aggregate.

Notice something else about that list?
In all but two of those states, who is the dominant ILEC?
I'll give you a hint, it starts with a 'V'.

Sources:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co···_density
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.···_density

Actually the numbers i've seen quote 238 sq.km and here where we live it IS closer to 110/sq.km. We live in the central part of Brittany, France and it is quite sparsely isolated. But when i chose Orange for our ISP i was given the choice of line speeds up to 24MB/sec. if my pockets were deep enough (they arn't) but the service is exceptional compared with what we had in london with pipex and demon.co.uk. i am siper impressed with the availability here in rural areas. Yes, we are in a small city with many schools so that may be the reason. i known several of our friends live just outside the borders of thsi town and they only have 56k dial-up service. Guess the telco. infra-structure has not caught up with them yet. But i bet it will soon. 8-)

reply to elvey
You're overlooking where I said in cities and towns.

France may have more population per landmass then the USA, but many cities in the USA exceed the population density of Cities in France or rival it, so the argument that it can't work here because of population density is a false statement.
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