Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | reply to chimera
Re: Doesn't address the fundamental problem 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. |
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. |
