more on U.S. broadband A-OK

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "David S.Isenberg" <isen () isen com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:13:14 -0500
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>, Dewayne Hendricks
<dewayne () warpspeed com>
Subject: Re: U.S. broadband A-OK

Dave,
Dewayne,

[for IP and Dewayne-net, per your editorial discretion]

Declan McCullagh can't explain Canada by citing to population density.
Canada is much more sparsely populated than the United States, yet
Canada is
the third most connected nation, according to the ITU.   Declan
over-simplifies.
Population density is but one aspect of a complex picture.

Also, the idea that the U.S. is 11th is obsolete and optimistic.  New
data from
the ITU puts U.S. connectedness at 13th to 15th.  Even this ranking is
from 2003.
Projecting growth rates, it is likely the U.S. has fallen further
because other countries' connectivity is growing more rapidly.

More detail here:
http://www.isen.com/blog/2004/12/us-15th-in-broadband-per-capita.html
or http://tinyurl.com/6akar

An appropriate test of the McCullagh hypothesis would be to ask
whether, say,
equivalently dense sections of, say, Seoul and New York City were
equivalently
connected.

David I
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On Jan 10, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote on IP and
Dewayne-net:

> By contrast, the United States sprawls over nearly 10 million square
> kilometers--100 times the size of South Korea--with a population more
> evenly distributed between rural areas, towns and cities and far more
> likely to live in single-family homes. Geography and demographics
> explain why broadband will take longer to become available in the
> United States. 


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