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Article #257Re: FCC Broadband Proposal: too little, too late, too timid
From: Roy
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:29
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:29
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On 3/17/2010 7:58 PM, John Higdon wrote: > 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*. > > 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. > >> 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? > Density is the difference. Its easy to justify running fiber when the line supports multiple households. South Korea is usually used as a comparison. Its only 2/3rds the size of California but has 4 times as many people per square mule. The density in South Korea is slightly less than Santa Clara County. 20% of the South Korean population lives in Seoul and most people in live in high rise apartment buildings. Given the concentration of the population and the ease of servicing multiple households with a single fiber to an apartment block, its no wonder why there is such a difference in broadband coverage.
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