Hazy Arc
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | Must be nice...
...considering I pay $40 a month for 3/684.  |
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dan991199
join:2007-10-01
St Catharines, ON | i hear ya, but their lines don't have to travel over great big spaces to service people like they have to in North America. |
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Hazy Arc
join:2006-04-10
Greenwood, SC | That's certainly true...but it's always nice to dream.  |
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vpoko
Premium
join:2003-07-03
Jamaica Plain, MA | reply to dan991199
Doesn't explain why North American cities can't be wired at those speeds. Obviously the speed of the backbone will be the limiting factor then, but I don't see why I can't have that speed at least to my ISP. |
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
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said by Hazy Arc  :...considering I pay $40 a month for 3/684. don't feel bad; they only have that because:
- japan has high population density
- japan meddles in business and actually passes regulations
- japan has a broadband plan for their country because they think it matters
- whatever other reasons the trolls give for why we don't have these speeds and prices
besides, as all the incumbents tell us, we don't need these speeds - it will only make you hit your cap faster - hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
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Re: Must be nice...
Sure it does. The problem is quite simple- the large companies that have the financial resources to deploy such connections to cities also have massive rural and suburban areas that they have to serve, and prefer a one-size-fits-all (or as many as possible, at least) solution. The city-only carriers like RCN are too small to do anything, and are struggling to survive anyway. |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to nasadude
Another one:
The telecommunications industry is heavily subsidized by taxes (much higher than the 15 or 28% most people here in the US pay)
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
1 edit | didn't realize that; it's always nice to pay more for less, isn't it? |
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vpoko
Premium
join:2003-07-03
Jamaica Plain, MA | reply to Doctor Four
Japan has lower taxes all around than America.
»www.nationmaster.com/graph/tax_t···e-worker |
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cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
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Plus, if the big boys would try to do something like this in locations where it's financially feasible, regulators, consumer advocates, and every other yahoo would quickly accuse the providers of "cherry picking" their deployment.
I don't think it's a matter so much of the ISPs wanting to have a unified network. They don't want to have to justify why Town X isn't can't have gigabit symmetrical where City Y can, or even why Customer A can get it in a highrise, but Customer B across the street not in a high rise can't. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
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said by dan991199 :i hear ya, but their lines don't have to travel over great big spaces to service people like they have to in North America. Please. You act as if ISPs are having to string a line from California to Maine. By the way Japan is the size of Montana. And Montana is 100X the size of Rhode Island so why can't Rhode Island have symmetrical 1 Gbps? |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to vpoko
Well it helps not having fund an army. |
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Mogul3459
join:2006-06-05
Euclid, OH
| said by BF69 :Well it helps not having fund an army. Yep, we fund it for them. Ever since we beat them in WWII, and started occupation. We've never left. Heck, I just read we just parked another supercarrier in one of their harbors. |
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