BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to dan991199
Re: Must be nice...
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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cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
| reply to EPS
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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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| reply to vpoko
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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vpoko
Premium
join:2003-07-03
Jamaica Plain, MA | reply to dan991199
Re: Must be nice...
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. |
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Hazy Arc
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | reply to dan991199
That's certainly true...but it's always nice to dream.  |
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dan991199
join:2007-10-01
St Catharines, ON | reply to Hazy Arc
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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