It is kind of an apples to oranges comparison since Japan and Korea and
a few other places (even Aussie) have more than 70% of their population
living densely in a city. That makes BB penetration easy.
That being said. Since 1999, the RBOCs have been charging us for a DS3
fiber network that they have yet to build.
That's right - 45MB to the home - as promised in 1999.
We should have BB penetration in the 90%+ range in all NFL cities as
well as the top 100 MSA's by now.
But we don't due of course to politics, lobbying, litigation and poor
(no) over-sight.
Today BB is more than access - it is Opportunity. It is Economic
Freedom. It is a platform for Innovation, Collaboration and Communication.
Muni Wi-Fi isn't about free access. It is about economic competition
globally for jobs. (Think the Creative Class by Dr. Richard Florida).
I'll get down from my soapbox now, because I could go on all day.
Regards,
Peter @ RAD-INFO, Inc.
Matt wrote:
"For years, plenty of folks (including the Government Accountability
Office)
have been pointing out that the way the FCC
<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070205/165735.shtml> measures
broadband
competition is very flawed. It simply assumes that if a single
household in
a zip code is offered broadband by provider A, then every household
in that
zip code can get broadband from provider A. See the problem? For some
reason
<soapbox>
This gets old. They say the US is way behind. Really? I think they
are comparing apples to oranges. Do all they rural farms in Australia
have broadband? All the rural areas in China? Even S. Korea, one of
the most wired countries, do they have broadband in all there rural
areas? Sure its great in there metro areas but so is it here in the
US.
The only reason this upsets me is we are investing a great deal of our
own money building out to these underserved areas. I can just see
some report coming out then the government giving some grants to
telcos or whoever to bury fiber or whatever at huge expense to every
rural house in the country side. What I find really irritating is
I/we pay taxes too and will be getting the shaft. Its difficult to
compete with fiber with a 900 Canopy SM.
</soapbox>
Matt
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