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RE: The Gate- keepers have a plan for everybody
By masher2 (blog) on 1/16/2007 7:25:06 AM , Rating: 2
> "On of the key reason the USA broadband service are among the third world countries ..."

You don't understand the market. The USA leads the world in longhaul network. Raw speed, active capacity, dark capacity, you name it. And the US longhaul market is the least regulated in the world. No surprise its the healthiest in the world as well.

Where does the US trail? In broadband penetration to consumers. The so-called "last mile" of wire to the house. Not coincidentally, this is the most heavily regulated segment of the market, the one in which government law prevented competition from flourishing. The market where your local RBOC and your local cable company have legal, state-mandated monopolies. Is it any surprise this market has stagnated, compared to the colossal growth in longhaul?

Of course there are other reasons. Hard as it is for people like you and I to believe, many American consumers just aren't interested in broadband. I have the highest 6mb DSL offered in my neighborhood...but half my neighbors don't even have the entry-level 256K DSL plan. These are people living in $750K houses...the cost certainly isn't a factor. They just don't want it. And that makes it very hard to sell it to them.




