[Ars] US broadband growth plummeted in 2008

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Looks like the servers are showing how they feel about that sentence lol

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because japan and Korea dont are much smaller and more urbanized than the united states? Because it cost much less for them to install national high speed internet. because the internet companies in japan arent complete morons?

seriously, im rockin dial-up right now and broadband stops less than 1 mile from my house and i live in central ohio....

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but what about the uk? it's just as big as japan.

this is a really good article too about the situation:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0...theirs-faster/

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i find some of these studies just plain stupid......so ok....you had an X amount of people last year go with broadband......in their opinion there should be at least the same or more this year? do they realize that the people who already have it don't need to purchase it again?......i mean this is ridiculous......you have some 300 million people living in the US....say half of them have broadband.....so they automatically "asume" that with every year there are going to be more and more people switching over? they fail to realize that the "left over crowd" keeps getting smaller and eventually the sales will plummet more as less and less people have the need for it......same with the automakers......less and less people need to buy cars......so what does the auto industry do? ask for more money from the government to build more cars that nobody needs to buy......

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I agree 100%. The recent trend in cable companies and broadband providers in general has been ass backwards. This makes no sense at all. More people would sign up if restrictions were to be taken out not implemented in force. Reminds me of AOL charging for minutes and look where they've ended up financially - a bad joke.

Caps, throttling, the ridiculous pricing, they all have to go in order for the market to grow.

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They should ask for more money to be given to the people so the people can ****ing afford to buy their cheap built and ugly cars.

I love Pontiacs to death btw, but damn are they a failiure, I had the power steering fail me 3 times, and my car isn't even 3 years old.

American cars=fail imho and in reality, but support our autoindustry anyway.

Rockin a Saturn Vue RedLine and Pontiac G6 GT

There's a serious flaw to their argument though. Added 8.5 million subscribers in 2007, and added 10.4 in 2006 means that 18.9 million households or firms subscribed altogether. Well, I'll assume they have a 20% marginal error, that's still approximately 15 million subscribers that's already using broadband. Do they honestly expect the number of new subscribers to increase each year?
There is approximately 2.6 people per-household. This article seems to assume just because the US has 300 million+ people that there should be 300m+ subscribers. According to the article there are 67.7 million subscribers, quite an impressive feat. That means 67.7 million household and/or firms currently use broadband, how many more can you actually add? How are you going to except the number of subscribers to increase yearly if the number of subscribers are fixed? In my opinion this article has failed written all over it.

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That article is good to make the topic more known...but it does not look at all into depth including the various different methods of technologies for internet delivery, as well as economics and survivability.

Anyways it is nice that the topic is being tended 2

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This is an understandable point you make...but the fastest civil use internet connection is not from cable or fiber optic but instead it's a Japanese satellite.

So, it is absolutely insignificant whether your in a small area or an area as large as the Marian Grand Canals~!

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Herein lay the truth of why USA/Canada/UK are all behind the Asian Block in technology.

The US blackops have " The " fastest internet service courtesy of the 'american taxpay'.

If the US government "actually" cared enough about it own country and people to put $1B or more into a grid of sats for internet usage that trumped that of the Japanese high-speed internet sat. US would be that much ahead of the competition.

The problem is that the " lack of leadership " at the top from Bush to now Obama, the latter whom openly has spoken about not starting trade wars or "competition".

Leads us to where we are [email protected]#$%^&~ED-!

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We are behind asia in the UK, but based on that study we're alot better off than the US and Canada. Th average over here is about 8mb down, with up to 50mb down in some areas with virgin cable.