except i'm not white.
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taken from a far-left newsletter...
WHY U.S. LAGS BEHIND IN BROADBAND SPEED
Japan's J:Com is offering the fastest consumer broadband in the world - at 160 megabits per second. The average broadband speed in Japan is 61 megabits per second (as compared to 45.6 megabits per second in Korea or 4.8 megabits per second in the United States). In order to upgrade J:Com's network to provide that speed, the company had to invest US$20 per home passed (homes that could be easily and inexpensively connected to a cable network where the feeder cable is nearby).
By contrast, Verizon in the US is spending an average of $817 per home passed to wire neighborhoods for its FiOS fiber optic network and another $716 for equipment and labor in each home that subscribes. Those numbers from Japan came from Michael T. Fries, the chief executive of Liberty Global, the American company that operates J:Com.
An article in The New York Times, April 14, reported: "The experience in Japan suggests that the major cable systems in the United States might be able to increase the speed of their broadband service by five to 10 times right away. They might not need to charge much more for it than they do now and they'd still make as much money. So what's wrong with this picture in the United States?...
"Competition, or the lack of it, goes a long way to explaining why the fees are higher in the United States. There is less competition in the United States than in many other countries. Broadband already has the highest profit margins of any product cable companies offer. Like any profit-maximizing business would do, they set prices in relation to other providers and market demand rather than based on costs...
"Mr. Fries added another: Fear. Other cable operators, he said, are concerned that not only will prices fall, but that the super-fast service will encourage customers to watch video on the Web and drop their cable service..."
Average broadband speeds (worldwide):
Japan - 61.0 megabits per second
Korea - 45.6
Netherlands - 21.7
Sweden - 18.2
France - 17.6
Canada - 7.6
Poland - 7.5
Germany - 6.0
United States - 4.8
UK - 2.6
Greece - 1.0
[Full 2007 charts here http://www.worldpoliticsr...m/blog/blog.aspx?ID=1088 ]
$heep City, $ingapore is not listed in the chart as its average broadband speed is even less than the slowest recorded, Greece. The general rule is the smaller the area of a country, the faster the broadband speed. Hence island nations and smaller countries have faster speeds. $ingapore is the exception.
Click here for more.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/the-cost-to-offer-the-worlds-fastest-broadband-20-per-home/
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you yankees still have cheaper/faster interwebz compared to some european countries. which still makes me jealous and want to be white.
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taken from a far-left newsletter...
WHY U.S. LAGS BEHIND IN BROADBAND SPEED
Japan's J:Com is offering the fastest consumer broadband in the world - at 160 megabits per second. The average broadband speed in Japan is 61 megabits per second (as compared to 45.6 megabits per second in Korea or 4.8 megabits per second in the United States). In order to upgrade J:Com's network to provide that speed, the company had to invest US$20 per home passed (homes that could be easily and inexpensively connected to a cable network where the feeder cable is nearby).
By contrast, Verizon in the US is spending an average of $817 per home passed to wire neighborhoods for its FiOS fiber optic network and another $716 for equipment and labor in each home that subscribes. Those numbers from Japan came from Michael T. Fries, the chief executive of Liberty Global, the American company that operates J:Com.
An article in The New York Times, April 14, reported: "The experience in Japan suggests that the major cable systems in the United States might be able to increase the speed of their broadband service by five to 10 times right away. They might not need to charge much more for it than they do now and they'd still make as much money. So what's wrong with this picture in the United States?...
"Competition, or the lack of it, goes a long way to explaining why the fees are higher in the United States. There is less competition in the United States than in many other countries. Broadband already has the highest profit margins of any product cable companies offer. Like any profit-maximizing business would do, they set prices in relation to other providers and market demand rather than based on costs...
"Mr. Fries added another: Fear. Other cable operators, he said, are concerned that not only will prices fall, but that the super-fast service will encourage customers to watch video on the Web and drop their cable service..."
Average broadband speeds (worldwide):
Japan - 61.0 megabits per second
Korea - 45.6
Netherlands - 21.7
Sweden - 18.2
France - 17.6
Canada - 7.6
Poland - 7.5
Germany - 6.0
United States - 4.8
UK - 2.6
Greece - 1.0
[Full 2007 charts here http://www.worldpoliticsr...m/blog/blog.aspx?ID=1088 ]
$heep City, $ingapore is not listed in the chart as its average broadband speed is even less than the slowest recorded, Greece. The general rule is the smaller the area of a country, the faster the broadband speed. Hence island nations and smaller countries have faster speeds. $ingapore is the exception.
Click here for more.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/the-cost-to-offer-the-worlds-fastest-broadband-20-per-home/
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you yankees still have cheaper/faster interwebz compared to some european countries. which still makes me jealous and want to be white.
