bsoft
join:2004-03-28
Boulder, CO | Fail So, we're ahead of Germany, France, Italy, and Canada? And apparently our 2009 quality score is similar to Korea's 2008 quality score?
Our score improved dramatically in the last year because Comcast has been pushing DOCSIS 3 and Verizon has been pushing FiOS.
The reality is that the US could 'rank up' significantly in these types of rankings simply by lying about how much bandwidth we have. Provision 100Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 for every cable subscriber, and suddenly we look great. The HFC networks can't really deliver 100Mbps for each customer, and the providers have no incentive to offer it for a low price, but it's doable with toady's technology and with a minimal amount of investment.
The myth is that we need to be able to deliver 100Mbps with reasonable contention ratios to be able to have Korean-class broadband. The reality is that the contention ratios in Korea are anything but reasonable, and that the service can only deliver 100Mbps because relatively few people actually use it. |
