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John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> wrote in
news:higgy-72F5F2.19580717032010@news.announcetech.com: 

> In article
> <Xns9D3EC322CDCE6thisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131>, 
>  DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
> 
>> I'm sure we have far more broadband infrastructure than
>> all three of those countries combined.
> 
> So, are you saying that the US has more people than it can
> handle? By that logic, we should have shortages of
> everything. Funny that we used to lead the world in quality
> and quantity of telephone service *per capita*. 

No, I'm not saying that, at all.


> Now, to justify our miserably inferior broadband
> availability (and on a per-capita basis, it IS worse than
> most third-world countries), you compare our infrastructure
> on an absolute basis with some of the poorest nations on
> earth. 

The three nations I mentioned, was only because someone else 
named them.

Also, they are not some of the poorest nations on Earth..GDP-
wise anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_
(nominal)

Serbia does show as the lowest of the 3 I mentioned, but even 
that is at a > 50 percentile......meaning more than half the 
countries of the world are considered 'poorer'.

Additionally, the 'absolute' comparison was nothing more than 
a comment made agaisnt the original comment.....

"......we're actually behind Serbia, Croatia, and the Czech 
Republic in Internet infrastructure."

Which is not detailed either. How are we behind ? What exactly 
does that statement mean ? (Both rhetorical.)
 

>> If 'your' country was smaller than West Virginia (Croatia)
>> it shouldn't be hard to have nearly everything covered by 
>> broadband. Hell, I deployed a wireless network that
>> covered nearly half the state of Iowa in 6 months (1/2 =
>> 23,138 sq. miles).
> 
> So what's up with the rest of the country? What's our
> problem?

Money. If there is no money to be made, no one does anything.

Doesn't everything come down to money ? (Rhetorical.)