On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Leif Wahlberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I am in Korea on a gig and is staying at a hotel in New Songdo City. > ... 80 Mbps in and 15 Mbps out ...
South Korea is supposed to be like 1st or 2nd in global Internet connectivity. I've read that kind of connectivity is not uncommon in the major metro areas. The USA is around 12th, I believe. We gave huge tax breaks to the telcos to build a next-generation infrastructure. They pocked the money. They either did nothing with it, or built infrastructure but then claimed it was privately owned. The NH PUC let Verizon (formerly Bell Atlantic, formerly NYNEX, formerly New England Telephone, formerly AT&T) let the PSTN in this state decay into decrepit condition, then let VZ off the hook for fixing it, and then let VZ *sell* the mess to FairPoint for 4 billion dollars. FairPoint is now going bankrupt trying to make the payments to VZ while also trying to clean up the mess VZ left behind. Go USA! :-( -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
