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tiger72
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2nd graph is kinda pointless

It implies that certain countries are heavily investing in broadband, regardless of their apparently very low population densities... That is, however, false because in most of those countries their population is heavily centered in a select few cities, while the rest of the country goes broadband-less but drives down the overall density figure...

just wanted to throw that out there...
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Re: 2nd graph is kinda pointless

said by tiger72 See Profile :

It implies that certain countries are heavily investing in broadband, regardless of their apparently very low population densities... That is, however, false because in most of those countries their population is heavily centered in a select few cities, while the rest of the country goes broadband-less but drives down the overall density figure...

just wanted to throw that out there...
I was in scarcely inhabited parts of Finland and was able to get broadband via GSM. 1.5/256. I was in the north about 150 miles from Savonlinna near the Russian border. There are virtually no people there but I picked up 3 different GSM providers and broadband. For what its worth.
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said by tiger72 See Profile :

That is, however, false because in most of those countries their population is heavily centered in a select few cities, while the rest of the country goes broadband-less but drives down the overall density figure...
Not true. These countries actually have broadband policies that encourage deployment to all citizens, not, as in the U.S., just a select class. Examples: BT has wired all CO's in Scotland, even in the Highlands. A farmer in the countryside in Korea has broadband access to sell his product, just as his city brethren.

This was years ago and before DSL was deployed, but I remember being amazed having ISDN in tiny hamlet way up in the French Alps.
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