U.S. Improves Broadband Penetration Rankings > People CHOOSE not to have it

reply to So What

Re: People CHOOSE not to have it

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To clarify, according to some sources, 80% of people who can get local phone service qualify for DSL

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The unfortunate bit here, which is often referenced in other BB penetration posts involving the USA. USA has a lot of poor and uneducated. Many western european countries, scandinavia and some asian are far better off and this is a bit of the driver for beter pentration rates. :-(

reply to Karl Bode
The number of states is irrelevant. We're talking about total US households. It may be the case for a few households in Montana compared hundreds of thousands of households in urban centers.

We're not talking about deployment per sq mi, but what % of US HOUSEHOLDS can get broadband and more importantly how many even want it.

All of the data indicates that the VAST majority of total US households can already get broadband services, but barely 1/2 bother to buy it.

Where do you get the VAST MAJORITY from.

reply to Karl Bode
I live in the metro DC area in Maryland, about 6-7 miles outside the beltway. The area I am in was rural 25 years ago, but it's been pretty dense for at least the last ten years and gets denser every year. It's also a wealthy area.

I have been able to get pots since that time, but have never been able to get DSL and never expect to get DSL - I will get FIOS eventually.

For some reason, the incumbent telco has never seen fit to upgrade equipment in this area to offer DSL.

So no service is not always because an area is rural or because everybody living there is "poor"; it's apparent the telcos have various reasons for not serving an area, but one thing is obvious - because they are/were a monopoly, if they don't want to do something, they don't have to.

Thats the biggest problem. It doesn't seem to make any sense on how those providing service decide who to serve and who not to serve.

reply to Nuts
I already posted this.