Techie714
join:2005-08-02
Anaheim, CA
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|  Expected!
What else would you expect when you have large corporations involved, politicians & then everybody taking everybody to court on top of that? The whole system is so bogged down with corruption & legislation that many companies say forget dropping billions into a project that will take about 10 years to get up and running. Then you also have huge portions of the American public that have no idea what broadband is and still think the internet is “just a fad”. It’s obvious that the Japanese are a lot smarter then the U.S. when it comes to this. |
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iotastorm
join:2006-01-24
Florissant, MO
| Well lets look at this. You have Japan most of whose population is located in dense Urban areas and multi-dwelling buildings. Its really easier to hook these up you put a DSLAM unit in the basement to connect 100's or more people at a time, run an optic link to the local office. Got a building with a lot of people in it? throw a dslam in and run an optic to it. Piece of cake.
We Americans generally like our space. We're spread-out. there are a bit more technical limitations to running things out to each home (except in the denser Urban areas in apartment buildings, we could throw dslams in there) |
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Kompressor
Premium
join:2002-02-12
Huntington Beach, CA | I'm so sick of hearing that argument.
If what you say is true, big citys like New York would be all 100mbps symmetric fiber. |
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cybergrunt1
join:2003-02-14
Culver City, CA
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[sarcasm] That must explain why Verizon only offers FIOS to suburban houses, not to dense Urban areas and multi-dwelling buildings. [/sarcasm] The fiber itself is cheap and town-to-town fiber is easy. Installing in dense urban areas is costly and hard. Japan is way, way ahead of the U.S. |
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iotastorm
join:2006-01-24
Florissant, MO | As I understand it, that is what Japan and other Far Eastern areas ARE doing, I didn't say WE were doing it. It might make sense to do it that way. |
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