[BC] USA drops in broadband

[Dana Puopolo]

What you say is truem but that's not really the problem. The problem is
greed.

In most of Europe and Asia, symmetrical broadband running speeds of 25-100
mbit costs under 25 USA dollars a month. Here we pay more then that for DSL
that is asymmetrical and has maximum speeds of 8mhz/1 mhz. Cable and FIOS
(fiber) does somewhat better, offering speeds in the 15mbit/2mbit range,
though still crawling by European and Asian standards.

It's greed that keeps speeds down and prices high here.

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:04:44 PM EDT
From: "Kent Winrich" <kwinrich at gmail.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] USA drops in broadband

The thing with numbers like these is that land area is not considered.
Piece of cake to cover a country like Denmark or the Netherlands.  Try
covering Utah, or Wyoming, or even some areas of North Carolina.

On 4/23/07, Dana Puopolo <dpuopolo at usa.net> wrote:
>
> Once again., the USA drops in broadband penetration...the fourth time in
> four
> years. It's noce to see that we still show leadreship (not!).
>
> "The OECD today released broadband statistics through December 2006 that
> show
> the United States has dropped further in the global rankings, though we
> still
> have the most overall broadband subscribers among OECD countries. Some key
> findings from the report:
> European countries have continued their advance with high broadband
> penetration rates.
> Denmark and the Netherlands are the first two countries in the OECD to
> surpass
> 30 subscribers per 100 inhabitants.
> The strongest per-capita subscriber growth over the year comes from
> Denmark,
> the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Ireland. Each country added more than
> 5.8
> subscribers per 100 inhabitants during the past year.
> Fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) subscriptions now comprise nearly 7% of all
> broadband
> connections in the OECD and the percentage is growing.
> Korea and Japan each have more than 6 fiber broadband subscribers per 100
> inhabitants.
> Japan leads the OECD in fibre connections directly to the home with 7.9
> million fibre-to-the-home subscribers in December 2006. Fibre subscribers
> alone in Japan outnumber total broadband subscribers in 23 of the 30 OECD
> countries.
> The total number of ADSL subscriptions continues to fall in Korea and
> Japan as
> more users upgrade to fibre-based connections.
> DSL continues to be the leading platform in 28 OECD countries. Cable modem
> subscribers outnumber DSL in Canada and the United States.
> The United States has the largest total number of broadband subscribers in
> the
> OECD at 58.1 million. US broadband subscribers now represent 29% of all
> broadband connections in the OECD, down from 30% in June 2006.
> Canada continues to lead the G7 group of industrialized countries in
> broadband
> penetration
> DSL makes up 62% of the OECD rankings to cable's 29% and FTTH's 7%
> The Free Press wins the prize for being the first organization of many
> who'll
> lament the showing and once again call for some kind of national broadband
> policy."
>
>
>
>
>
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