American Broadband: Outclassed → Re: Is it rehash Thursday ?

ROFL, EVDO as somthing advanced thing? LOL... Compare it to Europe: even former Commie countries have similar speeds available for long time - in some you can already order 10-20Mbit ADSL2+ or cable connections, unlike here.

Generally speaking US is clearly behind most of the developed world (ie West EU, Japan, Korea) - if somebody don't see this, he's living in denial. : we have an awkward, anti-competitive monopoly in most of the US markets and that's why we are waaaay behind.
Heck, there's no other country where a corporation would dare to try to openly block muni developments, not to mention no state legislation would block competition by law... and let's not get into the totally rotten and corrupt big business-employee, the FCC's actions...This is probably the most ridiculous excuse and pro-corporate, pro-monopoly guys love to post it.
To shortly rebuke this idiocy, two things:
1. according to 2004 census daTA, over 80% of US population live in metropolitan areas which are the perfect places for en masse broadband deployment
2. look at Canada

I await your response... FYI: I expect you to prove me somehow magically that 80% already have *real* broadband (real = not the artifically inflated, laughable broadband definition of FCC)Sorry to single you out amongst the many who are claiming basically the same false crap.

Do you have any studies or proof to back this up? Please provide evidence to this, white papers, publications, peer reviewed journals, anything?
Show me how we are falling behind as a result of this and not conjecture.

Umm WTF are we talking about, seriously? Go and search for available services in Japan, Korea, France, Sweden, Holland, UK, Germany or even Hungary or Poland.
It's not rocket science, no need for "whitepaper" and "peer reviewed journals" (What an idiocy: 'peer review" on actual service offerings! ROFL!) - if you weren't kidding, then obviously you have zero knowledge on this industry.
Apparently you're not only ignorant on this particular subject but also too lazy to do a search, right? :P :P

This is the original post in this part of the thread that I was responding to.
I never contended that service offerings were different.
Why dont you actually take the time to read before pressing the reply button.
My contention is no one knows just how much (or little) any differences in network accessibility is hurting (or not) the US. I see many making conjecture but nothing more. It is easy to scream the sky is falling, is it, how much, what truly are the implications.Try reading, its not rocket science.