> Report: US falling further behind on broadband speeds, reach By John > Timmer | Published: August 14, 2008 - 08:00PM CT > > The latest measure of the state of the US broadband market is now > available and, like many other takes on the subject, the picture it > paints is a bit depressing. The report puts the US in 15th place when > it comes to national broadband speeds, and indicates that > improvements are coming very slowly. > > Read more here: http://tinyurl.com/6fmvcx
My friend sent me an email from a free WiFi hotspot in Paris yesterday, with his iPhone. The city is covered with free public hotspots. Broadband is cheap compared to the US. €29,90 per month for 8Mbps Internet and phone. Add €10 for TV. I'd be happy to pay that here for 8Mbps service, which I think was around €20-25/mo for Internet alone.
ZDNet Australia has the US listed in 2008 as 23rd behind Latvia, Greece, Hong Kong, Romania, Macau. Pretty pathetic. Most of the countries ahead of the US don't have fiber optic networks either. The high speeds are on copper. Higher speeds can be found on fiber, but it's cheaper to install more switches in some cases than to install an entire fiber network. Americans are such sheeple. They don't demand better, more affordable service; they just pay whatever the providers tell them to pay. Pretty pathetic.
I got a phone call from Comcast yesterday asking if I wanted to get fast broadband. I told her to call me when I could get 20Mb service for $30, and did they have that yet. She hung up. Didn't even want to talk. Shame on her. I think I might sell my stock.
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