[83773] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Aug 24 20:39:14 2005
In-Reply-To: <1F5E5C37-659C-4356-A85E-5834D208C050@covisp.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:38:06 -0400
To: Lewis Butler <lbutler@covisp.net>
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On 24-Aug-2005, at 19:16, Lewis Butler wrote:
> And what does every country ahead of the US have in common? Tiny
> populations.
>
> And waht does every country but one have in common? Very small
> area. The US has states taht are larger than 10 of the 11
> countries ahed of use, COMBINED.
(populations; population densities in people per square km, pasted
from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_countries_by_population_density>)
South Korea 48M; 491
Netherlands 16M; 395
Denmark 5M; 126
Iceland 0.3M; 2
Canada 33M; 3
Switzerland 7M; 181
Belgium 10M; 339
Japan 128M; 337
Finland 5M; 15
Norway 5M; 14
Sweden 9M; 20
United States 296M; 30
So, of the 11 countries that the OECD thinks have greater broadband
penetration than the USA, 6 are more densely-populated than the USA
and 5 are not.
Not that this necessarily means anything, but I thought your
sentiments above could do with some numbers. I don't see a strong
correlation between broadband penetration and population density here.
Joe
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