[83776] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Figgins)
Wed Aug 24 21:19:40 2005
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:15:44 -0600 (MDT)
From: Sean Figgins <sean@labrats.us>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: Lewis Butler <lbutler@covisp.net>, NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2891A09F-FC7A-494D-A446-E0F594B8558E@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Joe Abley wrote:
> 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.
I wonder how they figure population density... Is it just a matter of
land area divided by the number of residents, or something more complex.
I think that it would need to be much more complex than that for a country
that has such diversity as the US or Canada. Smaller countries, such as
European coundties, or Japan may be able to get by with straight averages,
but I still think that it would be better.
And what about penetration? Is this a matter of homes passed, or actual
subscribers? Perhaps it would be a better measure to percentage of homes
that are capible of having broadband access.
-Sean
