BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| LOL at report
Title of actual report "US Jumps to 24th in Worldwide Broadband Penetration". It's one fricken spot. That's more of a hop than a jump.
What is considered "broadband"?
Interesting
"Narrowband users connecting at 56Kbps or less now make up 16.57% of active Internet users, down 0.2 percentage points from 16.77% in June 2007
In July 2007, broadband penetration in US homes grew 0.2 percentage points to 83.43% up from 83.28% in June. This increase of 0.2 points is below the average increase in broadband of 0.8 points per month over the last six months. US broadband penetration uptake appears to be slowing down over the past few months."
So broadband grew by the same % as narrowband decreased. You want to know why broadband growth slowed? Well because no one is trying to provide broadband to rural areas where people rather not have ANY internet than to put up with dial-up or crappy satelite.
Much of that 16.57% of narrowband users live in areas where they COULD get broadband. They just choose not to. And they aren't likely to switch anytime soon.
Until ISPs decide to expand to areas not currently being served then they shouldn't expect broadband growth to increase much anytime soon. There are tens of MILLIONS of potential broadband customers out there if the ISPs would expand to these areas. |
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SSidlov
Other Things On My Mind
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join:2000-03-03
Pompton Lakes, NJ
 ·Optimum Online
 ·Cingular Wireless
| Report is meaningless without factor for population densities
This report does not have any valid basis. You can NOT compare places like So. Korea or Quatar with the US. I don't want to repeat myself but this problem with the statistics comes up all the time.
Here's a link to one of my prior posts that shows when you take a look at US to So.Korea and compare apples to apples, we are doing just as well as they are. »Re: All ISPS Marginal
As for those in rural TN and elsewhere without DSL or other broadband, the problem is not penetration but cheap labor, extraordinary tax incentives or direct federal funding to pay the underlying costs to bring broadband to that area in a manor that is cost effective. Look at what Verizon did to Maine and Vermont, they just told them it wouldn't happen and sold off the existing wire assets. Population density is the key to broadband penetration, and charts and listings that don't take it into account are meaningless.
Of course if we actually had a FCC or other government agency with a true national policy on broadband, a lot would might be different.
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