I was an ISP for 10 years and you are comparing apples to oranges when you speak of other countries broadband deployments. The lack of legalities for placing fiber, the population densities of smaller countries, government owned ILECs, cheap ass customers that switched to save 2 bucks a month, and believe it or not lack of American use of the internet as a whole is the reason for the US being behind in broadband deployments.
When you can lay a mile of fiber in Japan for pennies because the government says you can put it through someone's front yard to serve the public cheaper which could never happen in america your cost to deploy to 100,000 people is magnitudes less.
If a government owns the telco and they deploy broadband the public is still paying for it well not directly monthly but it still comes out of their paycheck in taxes PERIOD. The money to deploy this stuff doesn't come from trees.
Were you around during the dot bomb? Everyone under cutting everyone until the Corp with the biggest pockets won? Less competition equals higher prices, but you wanted to save 2 bucks a month so you switched. Quit your whining your, lucky you have broadband.
Doesn't look like a new device:) This will be very interesting device both legally and fun wise, since its already running linux. Basically DISH has now given the keys to the kingdom. It won't take long for someone to figure this thing out and be able to copy files to a PC.
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I was an ISP for 10 years and you are comparing apples to oranges when you speak of other countries broadband deployments. The lack of legalities for placing fiber, the population densities of smaller countries, government owned ILECs, cheap ass customers that switched to save 2 bucks a month, and believe it or not lack of American use of the internet as a whole is the reason for the US being behind in broadband deployments. When you can lay a mile of fiber in Japan for pennies because the government says you can put it through someone's front yard to serve the public cheaper which could never happen in america your cost to deploy to 100,000 people is magnitudes less. If a government owns the telco and they deploy broadband the public is still paying for it well not directly monthly but it still comes out of their paycheck in taxes PERIOD. The money to deploy this stuff doesn't come from trees. Were you around during the dot bomb? Everyone under cutting everyone until the Corp with the biggest pockets won? Less competition equals higher prices, but you wanted to save 2 bucks a month so you switched. Quit your whining your, lucky you have broadband.
Doesn't look like a new device :) This will be very interesting device both legally and fun wise, since its already running linux. Basically DISH has now given the keys to the kingdom. It won't take long for someone to figure this thing out and be able to copy files to a PC.
There is still an XM ad on his webpage...