said by TScheisskopf :

Simple Answers to Simple Questions:

Because he owns the joint.

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said by me1212 :

True, it is easier to wire a small country as opposed to a big one.

said by BF69 :

I'm so tired of people making excuses. These people are the same people that continually make excuses as to why their child is a C+ student instead of doing something about it.

said by DSLR Reader :

I'd really like some front page competition instead of just what Karl thinks of the news he posts.

said by baineschile :

I would say that plain geography counts too. Most countries in europe and SE Asia, where penetration is the highest, are a fraction of the geographical size of the USA.

If I ran a country the size of New Jersey, obviously its much easier to wire that square mileage with fiber, as opposed to the whole USA.

said by tubbynet :

that would have been true if i *only* called you a shill.
however, i refuted your argument *then* called you a shill. big difference in the order of operations....

said by OverModded :

Attacking the person instead of the argument they present is intellectually lazy.

said by Karl Bode :

"As our resident and professional front page troll, we hold you to a higher standard of trolling...

said by OverModded :

It's a fallacy because even if the criticism of the person is true, his argument may still be valid.

his argument may still be valid

said by tubbynet :

of course, as someone who benefits from the us maintaining its status quo, i would expect you to dispute factual evidence as flawed as long as the major players keep their stock prices up.

said by OverModded :

The "Subscribers per 100 inhabitants" metric has a statistical flaw. It does NOT take into account the size of the average household in each of the countries. Some of the countries at the top are there because they have smaller average number of people at a subscriber address. And some at the bottom have fewer subscribers, but because of larger average household size have more people with broadband access.

said by baineschile :

I would say that plain geography counts too. Most countries in europe and SE Asia, where penetration is the highest, are a fraction of the geographical size of the USA.

If I ran a country the size of New Jersey, obviously its much easier to wire that square mileage with fiber, as opposed to the whole USA.

said by baineschile :

I would say that plain geography counts too. Most countries in europe and SE Asia, where penetration is the highest, are a fraction of the geographical size of the USA.

If I ran a country the size of New Jersey, obviously its much easier to wire that square mileage with fiber, as opposed to the whole USA.

4a. Broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants in OECD countries
- Source: Data compiled from original and/or official Sources by Secretariat
- Current status: 2003 Provisional Data available from the Communications Outlook.
- Definition: The number of Internet subscribers is the number of active registered Internet accounts including all fixed network Broadband access technologies: Digital Subscriber Line services, Cable Modem services, Satellite broadband Internet, Fibre-to-the-home Internet access, Ethernet LANs, Fixed wireless subscribers. This excludes 3G subscribers