| This Stat Highlights Our Epic Failure The fact we American's make really great use of the crappy expensive broadband connections we have, highlights how much loss our crappy expensive broadband infrastructure is causing.
If we are #2 in making good use of broadband, imagine the GDP/productivity/producer-consumer surplus we could generate if we had a world-class broadband infrastructure. If our major dense cities had the same level of broadband infrastructure at the same cost as some places in Western Europe or East Asian, or if our adoption rates were as high as some of those places, we'd be in a much better off economic place right now.
Bottom line: If you build it (or sell it at a reasonable cost) American's will come. The cable-telco duopoly is costing the American billions in lost economic activity. |
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andre2
join:2005-08-24
Brookline, MA | said by Bill Dollar:The fact we American's make really great use of the crappy expensive broadband connections we have, highlights how much loss our crappy expensive broadband infrastructure is causing. Exactly - in measuring how well the infrastructure is meeting people's needs, heavy usage should be regarded as a minus, not a plus. |
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| Agreed completely. At any quality corporation when you start hitting 70% utilization, its time to spend money and upgrade the network.
For US ISP's hitting 70% utilization means you haven't oversold the network near enough.
Its kind of sad actually. |
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