keyboard5684
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|  How many countries?
I think they just did not do enough research.
There are a a lot of countries in the world and Japan, Europe, China, South Korea, and what, there where a couple more, do not make up the world.
Most countries, in my travels, use wireless.
Why, because telcos provide shotty service or use radio technology.
Most use cellular for voice and it has really boomed because there was no running copper in many of the countries.
So my analysis, my statistics, say wireless is the winner. Go to Belize and order phone and broadband? You get an antenna on the roof and a "landline" in the home (which is really a cellular to POTS converter) and broadband comes from wireless providers usually.
I do not want to leave out VSAT systems which probably make up most of the worlds broadband.
Those are my stats.
In the US... my stats says the majority is nothing, if we talk about country wide coverage. If you life next to a CO or in a place "of interest" then you get coverage!
But, here is the odd thing. I looked around on google a bit and my stats show the majority of internet use is, DIALUP! |
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iansltx
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| Majority of internet use by people may be dialup-ish, but majority of internet usage by volume is definitely broadband. My family back home, with their wireless connection, use the internet more than ten dialup users I'd think, and their usage is relatively light.
As to the stats, note that the countries in question were OECD. Read up on what countries they mean...we're not talking the whole world here... |
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keyboard5684
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| No, I was just making a point though.
OECD is just an economic makeup.
As far as your usage stats go, not true. I have worked for carriers most of my career and dialup traffic takes the cake. Dialup users download just as much, it just takes longer. Therefore with more dialup users than broadband the usage (bits loaded) is higher. |
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Kiwi
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I like the way you are viewing this, but to add a wee bit; the places most notable have a restricted urban base, on the whole, suburbia is America's 1st World problem. Once rural comes into play any statistic that endeavours to incorporate broadband is destined to failure, or at least mock figures. Figures and percentage are fun things to play with but are not realistic any more, they are simply tools for fools. |
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iansltx
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But if that were the case then we wouldn't have to upgrade network infrastructure, right? Since the absolute maximum a dialup customer can transfer is ~20 GB per month. Not getting how you're getting to your stats.
Even I, using my dialup connection liberally back in the day, probably downloaded only a GB or two each month. Since it wasn't fast enough to sream video, the amount of data I transferred didn't take video into account... |
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Kiwi
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| said by iansltx  :But if that were the case then we wouldn't have to upgrade network infrastructure, right? Since the absolute maximum a dialup customer can transfer is ~20 GB per month. Not getting how you're getting to your stats. Even I, using my dialup connection liberally back in the day, probably downloaded only a GB or two each month. Since it wasn't fast enough to sream video, the amount of data I transferred didn't take video into account... You missed the point keyboard5684 offered. I sincerely doubt you downloaded anything close to 1GB a month on dial up, I find that is around normal for average broadband users.
Network infrastructure is what people complain about, or the lack thereof, on upgrading. How many folks can go back to 1989, when the net started to explode on the home front. Of course the net was available before that date.... I recall a few people on this site, that can actually recall the events and progress.
Numbers used to be used to define a need, to fix issues; these days they are only numbers to satisfy a company need, a political platform and a means to disguise reality. |
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said by keyboard5684 :As far as your usage stats go, not true. I have worked for carriers most of my career and dialup traffic takes the cake. Dialup users download just as much, it just takes longer. Therefore with more dialup users than broadband the usage (bits loaded) is higher. You'd have to be working for a really rural telco for this to be remotely true. I work for one that would be considered rural and your claim is nowhere close to being true.
Dialup users don't download just as much. Not even close. There are many broadband users downloading >400 gb of traffic a month. Dialup users have to be much more selective as to what they are downloading and no one wants to tie up their landline for a week to download a season of Heroes. |
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