FCC redefines "Broadband"

[vlad321]

mrstickball said:

vlad321 said:

mrstickball said:

Compared to whom?

If Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Massachusettes and Delaware were independent countries, they would all be in the top 15 countries in the world. So who are you trying to compare to? Korea and Japan, which are well above European internet averages, or what?

I'm not arguing that many parts of the US are behind. But I do believe it has to do with the size of the country, and the massive capital costs to build the infrastructure, as opposed to something else. Parts of the US have acess to insane speeds. I tested on a connection just 2 days ago that was getting speeds of 60mb/d and 45mb/u.

If you average out those states states you get a little over 14 Mbits, 14.09 to be precise. Now let's remove Korea and Japan, and youa r eleft with some pretty amazing countries up there. Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Moldova, etc. Kind of pathetic that even the densest regions of the most advanced country can't keep up with countries like those.

As for your NA comparison, I mean seriously? I didn't even know there were more than 3 countries in NA in existance. That's like saying "yeah I came in the race first, out of 3 contestants."

NA includes Mexico and the carribean. If you looked at the list, you'd see that it includes a few more.

As for the eastern European countries doing so well, I was thinking about that. I believe they are doing well for the same reason Korea is - economic development in anotherwise bad place. Due to new infrastructure being built, they are able to put in new technology, as opposed to upgrading old lines (like one would do in developed countries like the US and western Europe).

So I must ask - why would Bulgaria be higher than France? I'd like to hear your reasoning too.

I saw, see by your logic latin american countries should also have amazing internet, yet they do not, so it doesn't have to do with just the development. In those countries the ISPs are probably not trying to nickel and dime their customers but are actually trying to improve so they can make more money.  Meanwhile I have not noticed any form of improvement from Bellsouth, now ATT, in the last 8 years.

Edit: Could be that the government is subsidizing some of that development.