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more on more on U.S. broadband A-OK
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:11:08 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Jock Gill <jg45 () mac com> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:15:42 -0500 To: Farber Dave <dave () farber net> Cc: Isenberg David <isen () isen com>, Jock Gill <jg45 () mac com> Subject: Re: [IP] more on U.S. broadband A-OK Dave & David: An interesting metric that would be useful to publish is the cost per megabit of domestic low-band [any connectivity below 1 gigabit] For example, Comcast charges about $45 for 3 megabits = $15 / domestic megabit of low-band per month. I believe that in Germany there are locations where the cost per domestic megabit is 12.5 cents/mo! [1 gig at $125/mo] Clearly Comcast would appear to be extravagantly over-charging -- by a factor of about 120X -- and we customers are getting very badly ripped off. This suggest that that we need a mix of metrics to evaluate US connectivity standings. 1] percent of population served 2] capacity of connectivity rating [low-band to broad-band] 3] cost per domestic megabit per month. 4] symmetric or asymmetric connectivity 5] support for end-user content creation and distribution: blogs, podcasts, vidcasts etc. 6] other? Regards, Jock Jock Gill Meme Intelligence http://public.xdi.org/=Jock On Jan 11, 2005, at 8:26 AM, David Farber wrote:
------ Forwarded Message 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 Also, the idea that the U.S. is 11th is obsolete and optimistic.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 ------- 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.------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as jock () jockgill com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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