chimera
join:2009-06-09
Washington, DC Reviews:
 ·Comcast
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Re: Doesn't address the fundamental problem Bandwidth is infinite like the work force is infinite. More are humans are always showing up, but there is still a finite number at any given point in time, and this is why we still all get paid despite there being 6 billion humans on the planet right now.
Back on the subject of broadband: high population density (as found in these countries) makes deploying broadband a lot easier and a lot cheaper, but both the US and Canada has large areas with low population density and this raises costs when attempting universal deployments. |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | Chimera
While the population density argument has some validity in rural areas (ie most of SD,WY,ND, etc), it does not explain why many metro areas are still paying $65/month for 5Mbps down/512k up. There is not a significant difference in population density of many well handled (broadband) European cities and many US metropolitan areas. So in US metropolitan areas the differences in population density is really a wash. |
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chimera
join:2009-06-09
Washington, DC Reviews:
·Comcast
| Lazlow, you are right about Metro areas which ought to have been setting up muni fiber for the last half a decade or more to stay ahead. I think it's a shame that this never happened and never will, but that's how the system works.
I was simply pointing out that a national policy like South Korea, Japan and Finland have can't really work for the US because of the issue of population density. Any attempt to have the federal government funnel money into denser urban areas areas (notably blue states) is normally met with a tremendous amount of resistance and never happens. This is one reason why our extremely expensive national broadband policy is focusing not on improving connections for a large number of people cheaply, but instead connecting areas that are extremely sparsely populated. |
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