On 06/11/10 19:40, andre999 wrote:
Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
2010/11/6 Renaud (Ron)
OLGIATI<[email protected]>:
I understand bending backward to help those people in
backward countries who
cannot download, but should we be bothered with those, in
the first world, who
are too stingy to get a proper Internet connection ?
What is such a question supposed to be?
I do not see any difference between backward or forward
countries, I
only see users with large bandwidth and such with small
bandwidth. You
may never heard about it but there are large regions in
the so-called
"First World" which are not yet connected to the internet
in a proper
way (I know regions in Germany where you are lucky to have
a dial-up
connection). As I learned there are also regions in the US
which are
as far industrialized as your favourite "backward country".
Then there is the cost of fast connections - not everybody
has the
money to pay for 6MBit lines in countries where such
connections are
expensive. And not everybody can put internet costs on top
of his
priority list.
Yes, we should be bothered with those.
Exactly.
I'm in the region of Montréal, Canada, where broadband is
common, but high bandwidth is *very* expensive.
Personally I have slow ADSL (technically broadband), but
with a not very high monthly limit.
Luckily, I can take my portable to the local library to
download my Mandriva DVDs for free.
Most people in this supposedly favored region do not have
this option.
(i.e., no ADSL or not high limit or the local library
doesn't provide free Internet or no portable.)
<snip>
Likewise, Italy has high bandwidth, but I'm in a rural area
without broadband where dial-up internet is unusable because
the connection is too intermittent, short-lived and erratic.
The only way of getting onto the internet is by mobile
broadband - and even that's not particularly fast in this
location.
Doug
