Originally posted by: Slikkster
begin quote>Originally posted by: BigJ
You're onto a very important point that people often overlook. The US was originally the leader with broadband technology. It was extremely costly to setup and was very restricted in terms of peak performance. Because of what the US did, Japan and Europe were later to the game but laid much better initial infrastructure, reducing the costs required for ramping up speeds considerably. For the US to ramp up speeds, we're laying new infrastructure, such as the case with Verizion Fios.</end quote></div>
Europe? I've always heard that it's been a historical pain to lay any kind of cable, particularly in and around the older cities. That's one reason wireless is so prevalent there.
Repost? Let's see...I searched for:
Broadband
Net Access
Speed
Japan
and zippo came up. The story is datelined yesterday.
Now, whether the story itself is "news" or not vis-a-vis other countries might be a different story. The 50-state comparison is useful, though, as an indicator of how the US network is laid out. Oddly enough, California doesn't do very well in the state comparisons.