[IP] more on more on U.S. broadband A-OK

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Jock Gill <jg45@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:15:42 -0500
To: Farber Dave <dave@farber.net>
Cc: Isenberg David <isen@isen.com>, Jock Gill <jg45@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on U.S. broadband A-OK

Dave & David:

An interesting metric that would be useful to publish is the cost per
megabit of domestic low-band [any connectivity below 1 gigabit]

For example, Comcast charges about $45 for 3 megabits = $15 / domestic
megabit of low-band per month.

I believe  that in Germany there are locations where the cost per
domestic megabit is 12.5 cents/mo!  [1 gig at $125/mo]

Clearly Comcast would appear to be extravagantly over-charging -- by a
factor of about 120X -- and we customers are getting very badly ripped
off.

This suggest that that we need a mix of metrics to evaluate US
connectivity standings.

1] percent of population served

2] capacity of connectivity rating [low-band to  broad-band]

3] cost per domestic megabit per month.

4] symmetric or asymmetric connectivity

5] support for end-user content creation and distribution: blogs,
podcasts, vidcasts etc.

6] other?

Regards,

Jock


Jock Gill
Meme Intelligence
http://public.xdi.org/=Jock

On Jan 11, 2005, at 8:26 AM, David Farber wrote:

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> From: "David S.Isenberg" <isen@isen.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:13:14 -0500
> To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>, Dewayne Hendricks
> <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
> Subject: Re: U.S. broadband A-OK
>
> Dave,
> Dewayne,
>
> [for IP and Dewayne-net, per your editorial discretion]
>
> Declan McCullagh can't explain Canada by citing to population density.
> Canada is much more sparsely populated than the United States, yet
> Canada is
> the third most connected nation, according to the ITU.   Declan
> over-simplifies.
> Population density is but one aspect of a complex picture.
>
> Also, the idea that the U.S. is 11th is obsolete and optimistic.  New
> data from
> the ITU puts U.S. connectedness at 13th to 15th.  Even this ranking is
> from 2003.
> Projecting growth rates, it is likely the U.S. has fallen further
> because other countries' connectivity is growing more rapidly.
>
> More detail here:
> http://www.isen.com/blog/2004/12/us-15th-in-broadband-per-capita.html
> or http://tinyurl.com/6akar
>
> An appropriate test of the McCullagh hypothesis would be to ask
> whether, say,
> equivalently dense sections of, say, Seoul and New York City were
> equivalently
> connected.
>
> David I
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>
> On Jan 10, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Declan McCullagh wrote on IP and
> Dewayne-net:
>
>> By contrast, the United States sprawls over nearly 10 million square
>> kilometers--100 times the size of South Korea--with a population more
>> evenly distributed between rural areas, towns and cities and far more
>> likely to live in single-family homes. Geography and demographics
>> explain why broadband will take longer to become available in the
>> United States.
>
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