[106372] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: So why don't US citizens get this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Mon Jul 28 08:06:41 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:06:27 -0500
From: "Jorge Amodio" <jmamodio@gmail.com>
To: natalidel@mailinator.com
In-Reply-To: <2C28A764789D@xult.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Lets put aside for a moment the conspiracy theories of government
intervention and
the telcos evil doing, IMHO there is a simple reason why I don't have fiber
going
to my house: geography & economics.
Japan:
- area = 377,873 Km^2
- density = 337/Km^2
- pop = 127.5 mill
USA::
- area = 9,826,630 Km^2
- density = 31/Km^2
- pop = 304.7 mill
I belive there are just few major cities in the US that have a comparable or
higher
concentration of people like other large cities around the world.
I'd bet that if you deploy fiber in a given radious in a suburban area in
Japan you
may reach hundreds or thousands of potential customers, do the same a little
bit
north from where I live and you will reach a dozen guys, 50 cows and a
couple of
hundred chickens.
The US is so spread out that anything to do with transportation, being
people,
packages, or ip packets becomes quite costly.
Still I beleve is interesting to analyze why the US is lagging behind on
high speed
services.
My .02
