 ShiponRoflcopterPremium
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Anaheim, CA | Why is South Korea ahead of the US? Because of a little thing called "Regulation", that's what.
Face it, without being regulated deeply, companies are just worthless hunks of flab that refuse to try new things without the promise of profit. If the US did what South Korea did, we could all have 40 mbps connections to the home at 30-35 a month, but apparently the government believes in the obsolete idea of deregulation, so nothing is ever cheap, and companies are only getting greedier and greedier...
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| Because South Korea is so much smaller than the US. South Korea is the size of one US state. Maybe my numbers are wrong but the US has like 300 million people spread out over a huge space compared to 50 million of South Korea spread out over the size of one of our average states. Plus, the people in South Korea actually have more people that want it than the US.
So I think the US could easily wire the entire state of Pennsylvania if they only had PA to worry about and the majority actually wanted broadband. The truth is the majority of the people in the US are spread over a very large area and do not want broadband.
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Belvedere Tiburon, CA | You're both right. Korea is smaller and more densely populated, but having the telco be a government supported monopoly that is guaranteed of recovering its investment sure does encourage investment.
Of course, when Bell was a monopoly, the investment that we guaranteed was ISDN. Win some, lose some.
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ShiponRoflcopterPremium
join:2001-12-05
Anaheim, CA | reply to Shipon
Sure...but remember this...if we were to at least regulate the industry enough to guarantee that they had enough money to wire everyone to get broadband at near-dialup prices...we probably would be near having at least 50% broadband penetration by now...
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join:2003-01-03
Fairfield, CA | reply to keyboard5684
We have over 32 million in California, two of the largest cities in the world, Silicon Valley, lots of densly populated areas, and major backbone access. But we don't (overall) have these wonderful services. Granted the Sacramento area has FTTH with 10mbps at around $50/month, not to mention the provider of the FTTH isn't SBC or some big Telco, its SureWest (a CLEC). The more CLECs and ISPs that can offer these services, the sooner the telcos will take action.
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ShiponRoflcopterPremium
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Anaheim, CA | reply to Shipon
Well..I have to admit that at least some people are taking action to offer high-speed internet at cheap prices(10mbps for 50 is a bargain). |
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by Shipon:
Well..I have to admit that at least some people are taking action to offer high-speed internet at cheap prices(10mbps for 50 is a bargain).
OOL used to do 10mbit for $29.99/mo. course that was only 10mbps downstream but thats true always on, not that pppoe crap most ftt* has.
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