[100399] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Andersen)
Mon Oct 22 23:49:39 2007
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Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: David Andersen <dga@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:28:44 -0400
To: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
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On Oct 22, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Jeff Shultz wrote:
>
> David Andersen wrote:
>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/
>> AR2007082801990.html
> <snip>
>> Followed by a recent explosion in fiber-to-the-home buildout by
>> NTT. "About 8.8 million Japanese homes have fiber lines --
>> roughly nine times the number in the United States." --
>> particularly impressive when you count that in per-capita terms.
>> Nice article. Makes you wish...
>
> For the days when AT&T ran all the phones? I don't think so...
For an environment that encouraged long-term investments with high
payoff instead of short term profits.
For symmetric 100Mbps residential broadband.
But no - I was as happy as everyone else when the CLECs emerged and
provided PRI service at 1/3rd the rate of the ILECs, and I really
don't care to return to the days of having to rent a telephone from
Ma Bell. :) But it's not clear that you can't have both, though
doing it in the US with our vastly larger land area is obviously much
more difficult. The same thing happened with the CLECs, really --
they provided great, advanced service to customers in major
metropolitan areas where the profits were sweet, and left the
outlying, low-profit areas to the ILECs. Universal access is a
tougher nut to crack.
-Dave
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