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more on Om Malik on: Shrinking consumer broadband choices?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:20:56 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Date: October 15, 2004 9:09:39 AM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Re: Om Malik on: Shrinking consumer broadband choices?
Reply-To: dewayne () warpspeed com[Note: This comment comes from reader David Isenberg. In my comments I was being 'kind' to the FCC since a number of readers of this list work there. David is quite correct in his remarks below. My best guess is that the U.S. is now down to somewhere in the low 20s. The fact that the FCC is still using the old No. 11 figure when there is a more recent ITU figure just goes to show you how much in denial they are on this issue. If we can't get the authoritative government agency to tell the truth on this issue, then we can't expect very much from our Congress. DLH]
From: "David S. Isenberg" <isen () isen com> Date: October 15, 2004 12:01:21 AM PDT To: dewayne () warpspeed com Cc: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] Om Malik on: Shrinking consumer broadband choices?Dewayne, Even #13 is wrong by now -- this summary statistic comes from datathat are over a year old. If you look at relative growth rates, it is likelythat by now the U.S. has fallen to #15, and probably lower (becausethe data the ITU has published, which I'm projecting, are only collectedfrom the top 15 broadband per capita countries). That is, it is probable that there are nations that the last ITU report ranked below #15 (which we do not see in the top-15 report) that have per capita broadband growth rates much higher than the U.S. These would rise to above #15 the next time the ITU reports, so without a huge growth spurt in U.S. broadband uptake, the U.S. might not even be in the next ITU broadband report on the top 15 broadband per capita nations. This is why I've been saying that the U.S. is becoming a second ratenation for broadband connectivity. I'm not using a mere figure of speech.The above takes the definition of broadband as a given, but we know thatthe U.S. has so-called broadband connections that are 100 times slower than they should be (or 100 times more expensive, take your pick). In Japan they're even rolling out gigabit-per-second Fiber to the Home service priced at less than US$40 a month, see http://isen.com/blog/2004/10/in-japan-one-gigabitsec-for-40-month.html David I -------
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