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dan991199
join:2007-10-01
St Catharines, ON | Re: Must be nice... i hear ya, but their lines don't have to travel over great big spaces to service people like they have to in North America. | |
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Hazy Arc
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | Re: Must be nice... That's certainly true...but it's always nice to dream.  | |
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vpoko
Premium
join:2003-07-03
Jamaica Plain, MA | Doesn't explain why North American cities can't be wired at those speeds. Obviously the speed of the backbone will be the limiting factor then, but I don't see why I can't have that speed at least to my ISP. | |
| | EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| Re: Must be nice... Sure it does. The problem is quite simple- the large companies that have the financial resources to deploy such connections to cities also have massive rural and suburban areas that they have to serve, and prefer a one-size-fits-all (or as many as possible, at least) solution. The city-only carriers like RCN are too small to do anything, and are struggling to survive anyway. | |
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cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
| Re: Must be nice... Plus, if the big boys would try to do something like this in locations where it's financially feasible, regulators, consumer advocates, and every other yahoo would quickly accuse the providers of "cherry picking" their deployment.
I don't think it's a matter so much of the ISPs wanting to have a unified network. They don't want to have to justify why Town X isn't can't have gigabit symmetrical where City Y can, or even why Customer A can get it in a highrise, but Customer B across the street not in a high rise can't. | |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by dan991199  :i hear ya, but their lines don't have to travel over great big spaces to service people like they have to in North America. Please. You act as if ISPs are having to string a line from California to Maine. By the way Japan is the size of Montana. And Montana is 100X the size of Rhode Island so why can't Rhode Island have symmetrical 1 Gbps? | |
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