Fox McCloud
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Re: Ummn.. right.
said by Drakemoore  :Deployment and adoption of high-speed Internet service in the U.S. is a success story that shouldn’t be portrayed as a failure because of misleading statistics -- Cable’s broadband service is available to at least 94 percent of all U.S. homes, McSlarrow pointed out. At the same time that broadband availability has increased, McSlarrow said, the speed of the service also has jumped while prices have declined." 94 Percent, Yeah right >.> All raise their hand who thinks that's a load of crap * Raises Hand* so you're saying that only 18,000,000 don't have access to cable? I find that number exceedingly too long; I'd venture to guess that 70%-80% of the nation has access to cable broadband, but, certainly not 94% |
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Thaler
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| *shrugs* If I had to do a rough guess, I'd say 50-60% myself. Whenever I have a relative move, usually they have broadband avaliable. However, there is also a good possiblity that they might find themselves in a tech void.
I'd say that 94% is accruate...if we count overpriced satellite ISP systems as true broadband. However, if we're judging on affordable consumer systems (ie. $25-40 per month) then it's around 50-60. |
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Fox McCloud
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| said by Thaler :*shrugs* If I had to do a rough guess, I'd say 50-60% myself. Whenever I have a relative move, usually they have broadband avaliable. However, there is also a good possiblity that they might find themselves in a tech void. I'd say that 94% is accruate...if we count overpriced satellite ISP systems as true broadband. However, if we're judging on affordable consumer systems (ie. $25-40 per month) then it's around 50-60. Yeah, but he stated that CABLE had 94% coverage in the USA; if that were the case, I'd think that I'd probably have cable by now, along with a lot of other people that I know...
But yeah, 94% broadband coverage, period? Yeah, I'd say that's accurate, but that's only because of satellite. |
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burger2000
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| I think whoever from the NCTA that made that comment meant that 94% of U.S. homes that are passed by cable plant have broadband internet service available.
So whoever stated this either misspoke, implied a very important fact, or is just plain misinformed/lying. I lean towards the first. |
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Fox McCloud
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| said by burger2000 :I think whoever from the NCTA that made that comment meant that 94% of U.S. homes that are passed by cable plant have broadband internet service available. So whoever stated this either misspoke, implied a very important fact, or is just plain misinformed/lying. I lean towards the first. ok, that would make a lot more sense.
Seriously though, would there be any reason that if you got cable TV service that you couldn't get cable internet service? |
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Thaler
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| said by Fox McCloud :Seriously though, would there be any reason that if you got cable TV service that you couldn't get cable internet service? Well, I think there are actually services and stations a cable provider needs to put out in order to provide internet on a cable run. Simply having a copper wire doesn't automatically allow it to act as an ISP...until the cable provider has made the investment.
By similar logic, I could also wonder why everyone doesn't have access to DSL...seeing as how nearly every home is phone-wired anyways. |
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