Broadband Envy: Fixing American Broadband

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Broadband Envy: Fixing American Broadband

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 2, 2004 @02:30AM from the you'll-dial-up-and-you'll-like-it dept.

Ant writes "Broadband Reports has a story on broadband services among countries including United States falling behind: 'Bombarded with tales of South Koreans and Swedes watching high-definition soap-operas via 100Mbps connections, the media has apparently developed a nasty case of broadband envy. This Reuters article suggests the US has "missed the high speed revolution", while last week Business Week dubbed America a "broadband backwater".'"

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High Speed Revolution by UncleBiggims · 2004-09-02 02:36 · Score: 5, Funny

The High Speed Revolution will televised in the US ONLY.
In all other countries, it will be streamed in HD over 100Mbps connections.
Re:A concerted effort... by SatanicPuppy · 2004-09-02 02:38 · Score: 5, Funny

Hey, we know its an unfair criticism, compared to small densly populated countries like Japan and Korea...Still, articles like this may light a fire under some suceptables asses, and get us better broadband.

So let me be the second or third in decrying the deplorable state of broadband in this country! More porn! Faster porn! We are a shameful tech backwater! We might as well just be banging rocks together, settling for these crappy 3 megabit home internet connections. You know there is a direct correlation between the size of your pipe and the size of your penis, which means the Japanese and the Koreans have penises 33 times the size of ours! Even the women!

I call upon all of you to complain to your senators about the tiny nature of our pipes. It's flat out un-american. How can we hold up our heads in the world? No wonder we're having to invade other countries to prove our manhood.

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Meanwhile in Broadband Britain... by thinkninja · 2004-09-02 02:41 · Score: 4, Funny

Our postal service can't meet their targets and we are beholden to BT for all our telecommunications. At the very least in America there is a sembalance of competition.

I'm mildly annoyed because a 72hr outage was caused by a cow (supercow powers) munching through some BT cable. Don't they bury these things?

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1. Re:Meanwhile in Broadband Britain... by mccalli · 2004-09-02 02:49 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'm mildly annoyed because a 72hr outage was caused by a cow (supercow powers) munching through some BT cable. Don't they bury these things?
  Yes. The cow was given a proper funeral, with all appropriate honours. It was very mooving.
  Cheers,
  Ian
2. Re:Meanwhile in Broadband Britain... by darkmeridian · 2004-09-02 02:57 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You misspelled "honors" as "honours" and "moving" as "mooving".
  
  Damn Brits.
  
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Re:Size DOES matter. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-02 02:42 · Score: 3, Funny

When he said "miles and miles of wasteland" I just assumed he was talking about New Jersey...
Re:In the Great White North ... by cyberwitz · 2004-09-02 03:00 · Score: 5, Funny

You smug Canadians with your low crime, affordable healthcare, decent isp prices, good beer, hockey teams that aren't owned by shady AOL jerks, ... Where do I sign up?

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Re:A concerted effort... by mike_mgo · 2004-09-02 03:04 · Score: 3, Funny

So let me be the second or third in decrying the deplorable state of broadband in this country! More porn! Faster porn! ... which means the Japanese and the Koreans have penises 33 times the size of ours! Even the women!
What porn sites are you going to?
Sicko.
their way or the highway by gosand · 2004-09-02 04:32 · Score: 3, Funny

If the US highway system had been built using the same logic of those building the internet, we'd be paying thousands of dollars in tolls a year to move at 20 miles per hour around private roads surrounding the suburbs.
You've just described the Chicago suburbs.

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Re:Don't stop incentives for new tech! by nacturation · 2004-09-02 04:35 · Score: 3, Funny

If water was free in our homes - no one would even bother to turn off the tapp - "I like the sound the water makes - so I leave it on."

Water's free (ie: unmetered, paid through taxes) in my home and I don't leave the taps on. Do you know of any people who hyperventilate constantly because air is free?

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