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China to Top U.S. in Broadband Subscribers
An anonymous reader writes "China already is rapidly approaching the United States as the country with the largest number of broadband subscribers, according to the El Segundo, Calif.-based firm, and by the end of the year, China is expected to have 34 million subscribers, compared to 39 million in the United States. By the end of 2007, China is expected to have 57 million broadband subscribers, compared to 54 million in the United States, with an even wider lead in the years to follow."
China has enough people to top the US in anything.
Laws are for people with no friends.
Its funny you'd make that point... like China, Canada is a really big nation with a very densely populated area and an area that's not at all densely populated, although the difference between the two regions is obviously greater.
Its easy to wire major metropolitan areas in Canada for broadband, they're relatively large and not too spaced out. the region from Québec City, through Montréal, Ottawa and heading to Toronto is the population equivalent of the US's northeast, the centre for industry and most of the population. whereas the Northeastern US is really just a fraction of the population, this part of central Canada could easily encompass 1/2 the Canadian population... throw in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver, and youv'e got the vast majority of the Canadian population living in major urban centres that are ideal for broadband.
Compare to the US where you have entire regions where you have smaller cities (like say, North Dakota heading south to Oklahoma City, maybe even Texas), making it harder to get broadband access to people who live there.
The Canadian population is slightly (ever so slightly) more urbanized than the US population, facilitating broadband access.
Tim