Nicholai
@bc.ca
|  US penetration
I will agree with most that say that penetration means how many want to pay for the service and have the choice.
However I would like to point out that Canada with the highest penetration and with 5 of 10 the worlds fastest broadband providers being Canadian, we like our broadband.
It wasn't as easy to do as some people have mentioned with 75% of Canadians living along the US boarder. Yes you can do the large major cities with little effort, however nearly every single city in the country that has a population of 10,000 or more has broadband "available" to them. No matter where the live. Even the cities way up north past anchorage alaska in Canada have DSL available to them.
One way we are so wired is that every time they build or upgrade roads, they run fibre along the highway whether they need it or not as it is very very cheap to run fibre when the ground is already dug up. There is even more than 2000 miles of fibre along the alaska highway to get to only 20,000 residents of Whitehorse, Yukon.
Our gov't started the internet push ages ago with dialup. We have the highest number of people with any internet be it dialup or high speed (around 55 % of all households I beleive).
What I find interesting is not penetration or availability. It's QUALITY. I understand the other peoples arguments about living in rural area's etc etc. But when you have people living in LA county with DISMAL speed for their so called high speed...at a high price, that is a shame and there is no excuse for that.
Shaw cable now offers 7 mbit down and 1 mbit up for every major city in Canada for only 49 bucks a month or like 30 if you bundle with your tv package.
Just my two cents. I'm not trying to say America sucks. I'm saying America is great, my wife is American but just that broadband should be much much better than it is. |
