Japan: 10.52 Million FTTH Customers

said by jersey7:

We've spend over a trillion dollars in Iraq already.

said by pnh102:

Blah blah blah. More BDS. Nothing to see here, move along.

said by jersey7:

I used the Iraq factor to prove my point about the government.

said by jersey7:

Why do you interpret it as just a political rant?

said by jersey7:

What isn't OK is what's happening at the moment with the state of broadband in the US.

said by anon666 :

you think about how they spend or don't spend money now on other REAL issues in the U.S. that should be handled by the government unlike broadband which should be left up to the free market.

said by jersey7:

Japan: 872.8/sq mi
France: 293/sq mi
South Korea: 1,274/sq mi
These are the three top countries with the fastest internet speeds.

New Jersey: 1,134/sq mi
How come New Jersey can't offer the same speeds at a comparable price?

Population density is NOT the main reason why the US have not deployed faster internet. It's mostly government policy. We are the only industrialized country in the world with no national broadband plan. We've spend over a trillion dollars in Iraq already. Rather than spend it on some foreign country, we can use a fraction of that to wire the country(and bring actual benefits to our economy).

said by gaforces:

Working as a team is not necessarily socialism. Last time I looked (south) Korea was a democracy.
I would think, with their terrain, they had some obstacles to deployment which they were able to overcome with government help.
For some reason (couldn't be economics), they saw fit to wire their whole country with fiber.
From what I have seen online, the Koreans are one of the most formidable opponents to come up against in any online competition.
I don't see anything more important than bringing the US into the digital age.
While a large portion of Americans are waddling in 1950's technology, the rest of the world is passing us at lightspeed.

"South Korea is one of the world's most technologically and scientifically advanced countries; it is the only country in the world having nationwide 100Mbit/s broadband internet access, full HDTV broadcasting, DMB, WiBro and 3G HSDPA. It is currently the most wired nation in the world, with 90 per cent of homes connected to high speed broadband internet"
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_korea

said by Scatcatpdx:

Let me put it bluntly Government has the responsibility to protect it citizens hence spending in Iraq.

said by jersey7:


New Jersey: 1,134/sq mi
How come New Jersey can't offer the same speeds at a comparable price?

said by jersey7:

Japan: 872.8/sq mi
France: 293/sq mi
South Korea: 1,274/sq mi
These are the three top countries with the fastest internet speeds.

New Jersey: 1,134/sq mi
How come New Jersey can't offer the same speeds at a comparable price?

Canada -  3.2/km² (219th)   8.3/sq mi
USA -  31/km² (144th)    80/sq mi
France -       113/km² (89th)    293/sq mi
Japan - 337/km² (30th)   872.8/sq mi
South Korea -  480/km² (19th) 1,274/sq mi
 

said by WeSRT4:

Very legitimate point. However, most of the densely populated major metropolitan areas here in the US don't have FTTH.

said by Dogfather:

That's the only story here.

said by tmc8080:

It's quite clear that some of you don't want FTTP or the next generation of bandwidth increases. That's ok, just don't deploy there.. now if we could get you all together and call that region broadband black hole we'd have a much simpler time wiring the rest of us who want the next generation deployments. Do all that, and the government won't have to subsidize..

said by longstreet:

Consider the size of Japan, compared to the United States, then look up how much money it costs to lay fiber, and re-evaluate that statement.

Trust me we want it. But . . .as I said above . .

said by DvT Hex:

What makes you overcrowded rats-in-a-cage of the major metropolitan centers so special that you should get fiber and we should not?