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US Ranking for Broadband Falls
Ant writes "Broadband Reports mentions Declan McCullagh's CNET editorial where he believes everything is a-ok in the world of broadband, and people concerned with falling global rankings are over-reacting. 'FCC figures released last month show that 94.3 percent of U.S. ZIP codes have high-speed lines available to them,' he writes; though as we've pointed out, the FCC considers one home in a zip code with broadband to mean that entire zip code is 'serviced.'"
31.7 million hookups in a country of 300 million people is just pathetic.
Canada has 5.7 million for 28 million people. Canada is bigger, less densely settled, has less money, and it's far colder, which makes running lines more difficult. There's no *way* that the U.S. should be behind Canada.
Don't we want to keep American predominance on the Net, by using our advantages in brains, capital and momentum to overcome momentary disadvantages in geography?
1.) I lived in Seoul for the last 4 years, and enjoyed it when they upgraded me from ADSL to VDSL, no charge, just to free up space in the lower speed catagories. I'm in China now, and IPv6 is underway.
2.) American predominance? Don't look now, but English will be surpassed as the most widely used language on the net in less than two years - or sooner.
And what about Bush fixing the digital divide?
He can barely the handling digital subtract
And since the IQs of both were published, and Bush's was higher than Kerry's, does that mean Kerry can't even handle the digital add?
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way