> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan O'Donovan > > In the UK I could get all you can eat BB ADSL at 20Mb (advertised) speeds for > £75 == $117 a YEAR (including setup costs). > > Here in the US I (can only) get comcast's $60 a month 'deal' which includes TV > (which I don't have). I can't get a cheaper deal, and the internet speeds are > often lousy.
Of course there's a flipside to everything, and here it is. By lowering costs to consumers, of course you're benefitting the consumers and reducing the benefit to the providers. The providers are then not as willing to extend out to rural areas as they otherwise would have been. (They also employ fewer people, which is a separate issue that often carries political implications.) And when you don't service as many people, you don't get in some cases the same economies of scale - which means they don't grow their backbone quite as much, etc etc etc. Simply a less developed infrastructure overall. There's always a balance somewhere between two extremes, which is almost always subjectively positive or negative based on your individual perspective. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
