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 ·Armstrong Zoom ..
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Re: Why is South Korea ahead of the US? 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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 calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
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.
Calvoiper
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 ryanl88Premium
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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