[141673] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Jun 10 09:37:41 2011
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <9557095.22.1307666608541.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:36:51 -0400
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 9, 2011, at 8:43 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Even Cracked realizes this:
>=20
> =
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-internet-access-in-america-disaster
I would describe this as "local market failure". It's common even in =
highly populated areas, not just rural ones here in the US.
What I have observed is the roll-out of the AT&T U-verse service (aka =
internet-lite as it is not possible to disable some of their ALG on the =
gateway) skip areas along the way to hit higher density neighborhoods. =
They are getting better with their pair bonding, but many people are =
unable to get access at the edges of these populated areas.
- Jared
(who would have rather seen google roll into an entire county that faces =
these challenges vs major cities)=
