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Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:49:05 +0200
On 25-aug-2005, at 3:31, Jared Mauch wrote:
I once spoke to a construction manager at comcast for their network buildouts. With my local township, they need to have 20 homes per linear mile along the route to justify a build.
Turns out that the US has a cable penetration of some 67%. (http:// www.ncta.com/Docs/PageContent.cfm?pageID=86) That's pretty high, if you consider that coax can't carry a signal very far.
But I still attribute the non-stellar uptake of broadband to lack of DSL in the US. A significant portion of that 33% that doesn't have cable (and can't get it) should be within range for ADSL. On the other hand you still see above-ground phone lines in US cities, maybe that's not so good for DSL...
And in the future we'll see more wireless broadband.
Current thread:
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger, (continued)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Gary E. Miller (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Daniel Senie (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Michael Painter (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 23)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Lewis Butler (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Joe Abley (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Sean Figgins (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Jared Mauch (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Sean Figgins (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger John Levine (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger John Levine (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Jared Mauch (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 26)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Daniel Golding (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Joe Abley (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Joel Jaeggli (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Simon Waters (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Randy Bush (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Lewis Butler (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Steve Gibbard (Aug 25)