Of course considering that in 2005, Canada was ranked 5th in per capita
broadband and the US 16th (and I'm sure that the US has slipped even
further since then) then your theory doesn't hold much water does it?
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0508/
One of the things working against us is the things that people assume to
be true.
Makes sense...the cobbler's children have no shoes. At least we still
generate the best basketball players.
Craig
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 00:13 -0700, Jim wrote:
> Agreed Dan. South Korea is much smaller than the U.S. Less fiber is
> needed to provide access to all it's people.
>
> Let's look at it this way. You've got a high rise apartment building
> with a thousand people in it. Also you've got a thousand people in
> single family homes equally distributed across a thousand square miles.
>
> Which instance will require more fiber to bring broadband to everyone in
> that group? Which group will have more customers per mile? Which group
> will be more profitable for the company that owns the fiber?
>
> In the late 19th and early 20th centuries; people in high population
> density areas got electricity first. People in rural areas got
> electricity last. Out in the boonies somewhere, the power company might
> have one customer on a mile of wire. In the big city, they might have a
> few hundred customers on a mile of wire.
>
> The same goes for the phone company. I used to live in a rural area
> about 40 miles from the phone company switching office. The phone
> company had to lay and maintain 40 miles of cable for maybe 100
> customers. They can serve a helluva lot more customers in Phoenix with
> 40 miles of cable.
>
> The same principle applies to cable tv.
>
> Dan Lund wrote:
> > My opinion on countries like South Korea and so forth having a better
> > infrastructure is that it's easier to wire a closet than it is a
> > server room.
> > The size is so different that I don't even know why anyone uses it as
> > anything more than anecdotal.
>
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