Broadband Pricing Across The World?

Freedom_Canadian writes "I was wondering if it would be possible to put up a world map with broadband internet pricing. The prices in Eastern Canada are ridiculous comparing to some states, around $24 US for DSL or cable. I would like to know who is getting screwed, and who are the lucky ones." What are the best and worst prices in your own area? Perhaps someone handy with graphics can collect some good data points from your comments and create such a beast.

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Re:Location, Location, Location

[jonman_d]

I never said the United States doesn't have socialist leanings. However, when comparing the United States and Canada, it's obvious that Canada is far more socialist than the US.

This is OT.

Re:Location, Location, Location

[Sivaram_Velauthapill]

Both Canada and USA practice capitalism. Contrary to popular belief, Canada is not socialist (whoever that says so has no clue what socialism is). Having said that, Canada has more socialist IDEALS than USA.

You say that USA has just as many social programs. That is completely false. It may SEEM to have social ideals but it is anything but. Many things USA has are very minimalist so it is not even worth considering them. For example, USA has stricter welfare, unemployment, immigration, etc. Its schools (especially universities) are less subsidized (at least tuition--research is another story). The environmental laws are a joke (depends on state though--some parts of USA have good envrionmental laws). Worker protection is a joke (it probably has some of the worst laws (of the developed countries) to protect workers--on par with Italy). Even its library systems are highly questionable. And so forth.

The only socialist ideals and institutions that USA has that are on par or better than other socialist-like countries would be its free public roads (perhaps the best in the world--mostly because they were built by the military for WWII), human rights, and a few other things.

USA is one of THE most capitalist developed countries. Any socialist ideal is nothing more than an illusion--a facade if you will.

Sivaram Velauthapillai

Re:Location, Location, Location

[bofkentucky]

Let me go on record that of my three months of working in shipping at a magazine plant, the days when we handled canadian mail were the absolute worst. For US mail, we sorted mail by bundle and pallet, for canadian, we sorted by pallets of some of the nastiest canvas bags I have ever seen in my entire life. Empty, the bags weighed in ~15 pounds, plus up to 50 pounds of magazines, but in most cases, you put one or 2 mags in a bag, tagged it and threw it on a pallet. So its 90-105 degrees, you've got a machine shoving 10000 loose magazines an hour at you and you have to sort their mail down by zip code (its canadian equivalent). When we dealt with US bag mail, we had lightweight plastic jobs that were absolutely perfect, and shock shock, would lay flat so your Esquire or Brides didn't come in mangled. Canada Post sucks!