Japan Is The Only Country Future-Ready for Broadband > Oddly, increased deployment of cheap tiers hurts our aver.

reply to Dogfather

Re: Oddly, increased deployment of cheap tiers hurts our aver.

Probably 80% of the population of Japan lives in cities, with as much as 60% in the larger cities. The largest cities are on the Kanto plain (Tokyo, Yokohama) and on the Kansai plain (Kyoto, Osaka). Only as far apart as San Francisco from Los Angeles, in California. Move 80% of the U.S. population to those two cities, and suddenly 100/100 Internet will be economically feasible in the U.S.A.
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Norman
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The lines running city to city part of the equation is not the problem. It is within city (node to home, etc) that is the problem. While the density argument is somewhat appropriate, it not nearly as applicable when comparing our cities to their cities. The density differences (their cities to ours) is just not that great. Certainly not enough to account for 100/100 (there) being the same price as 5/512(here).