Re: So why don't US citizens get this?

[Hyunseog Ryu <r.hyunseog () ieee org>]

I think it is simply the matter of ROI - Return on Investment - issue.
I'm still living in the area without city water, and when there is power
outage, I don't have water at all since my water pump still needs
electricity.
But some rural area has FTTH because of government funding RUS
(http://www.usda.gov/rus/) project.
And most of urban area, people are still happy with cable modem service.

People in Japan and South Korea are more of tendency to become
early-adapters.
So when they have new products, they wants to try it by majority.
But in U.S., we are still cost oriented, and if we don't need it, we
don't buy it. ^^

That's my 2 cents.


Hyun



Tom Vest wrote:
> Sort of makes one wonder how the US came to have ubiquitous roads, or
> power, or water distribution...
>
> TV
>
> On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
>
> > Lets put aside for a moment the conspiracy theories of government
> > intervention and
> > the telcos evil doing, IMHO there is a simple reason why I don't have
> > fiber
> > going
> > to my house: geography & economics.
> >
> > Japan:
> > - area = 377,873 Km^2
> > - density = 337/Km^2
> > - pop = 127.5 mill
> >
> > USA::
> > - area = 9,826,630 Km^2
> > - density = 31/Km^2
> > - pop = 304.7 mill
> >
> > I belive there are just few major cities in the US that have a
> > comparable or
> > higher
> > concentration of people like other large cities around the world.
> >
> > I'd bet that if you deploy fiber in a given radious in a suburban
> > area in
> > Japan you
> > may reach hundreds or thousands of potential customers, do the same a
> > little
> > bit
> > north from where I live and you will reach a dozen guys, 50 cows and a
> > couple of
> > hundred chickens.
> >
> > The US is so spread out that anything to do with transportation, being
> > people,
> > packages, or ip packets becomes quite costly.
> >
> > Still I beleve is interesting to analyze why the US is lagging behind on
> > high speed
> > services.
> >
> > My .02