[PLUG] A Broadband Beat-Down - article from NY Times

[Piet van Weel]

I don't suppose it hurts having a country that is 10% smaller than
California. Of course it does have 4 TIMES the population of California
also. 

This means that the infrastructure just has to be beefed up in smaller areas
in order to facilitate the higher bandwidth. This would of course cost less,
and directly be easier to facilitate growth in the future!!

Piet

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Subject: Re: [PLUG] A Broadband Beat-Down - article from NY Times

On Jun 25, 2005, at 8:40 PM, AthlonRob wrote:
> Mel Andres wrote:
>> Says Japan has more broadband, at lower prices, and 16 times the 
>> speed.
>> Blames Bush administration for not keeping up.
> Because, of course it's the government's job to furnish everybody with
> broadband....

Well, large scale infrastructure is generally a government-led business 
enterprise... roads, utilities, etc. Things that are for the benefit of 
the people as a whole, without direct profit motive tangling up the 
works.

That being said, I do enjoy the benefits of having the privately owned 
"Internets" ;-) , as it means that government regulation, censorship, 
and control are somewhat mitigated.