RayW
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| China to lead the broadband world
China will overtake the US next year to become the world's largest broadband internet market, ..... will reach 79 million in 2007, consulting firm Ovum predicted. .......suggest that the number of broadband connections in the US, currently the world's largest market, is around 51 million. Talk about journalism for shock and sensationalism!
China has 1.3191 Billion people, the US only has 291.6 Million. That is about 4.5 times the US population, and it ain't all barefoot rice farmers folks!
If China (considering that they have become the new Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore of the world) did not have more users than the US, then something would be wrong. Especially since the State probably would just shoot any telecom executive that griped about the State putting in their own network (unlike the US where lawyers get rich and the people get nothing).
In line with the legal differences, most of China's infrastructure is new, they do not have to worry about old plants and co-existing current systems, just put in the best that is currently available.
And lastly, look at a population density map (I used »visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=116). It looks like China's main population is in an area about the size of the eastern US, much easier to wire up the masses.
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