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  • World's Fastest Broadband at $20 Per Home - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

    From the page: "World's Fastest Broadband at $20 Per Home By Saul Hansell "If you get excited about the prospect of really, really fast broadband Internet service, here's a statistic that will make heart race. Or your blood boil. Or both. Pretty much the fastest... more

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  • Reviewed by hockeyplayer168 on Jul 07, 6:55am

    I have a feeling my internet isn't getting any faster...

  • Rated by cirrostratus on May 03 2009, 8:31am

    From the page: "World's Fastest Broadband at $20 Per Home By Saul Hansell "If you get excited about the prospect of really, really fast broadband Internet service, here's a statistic that will make heart race. Or your blood boil. Or both. Pretty much the fastest consumer broadband in the world is the 160-megabit-per-second service offered by J:Com, the largest cable company in Japan. Here's how much the company had to invest to upgrade its network to provide that speed: $20 per home passed. The cable modem needed for that speed costs about $60, compared with about $30 for the current generation." ======= The gist of the article is basically, the near monopolies that US cable companies enjoyy in the US keeps our internet speeds slow and our wallets gouged.

  • Rated by rhyre on May 03 2009, 3:27am

    The article highlights the need for vigorous competition.

  • Rated by Tyrhaynes on Apr 07 2009, 6:19am

    oh, and what happened to the billions given to the big providers in the last decade and a half? Oh, they just pocketed it and used it to bribe politicians (at&t) into getting rid of network neutrality. Luckily they got caught! Sigh. 160 Mbits/s would be beautiful!

  • Rated by sounDeva on Apr 06 2009, 7:59am

    without oversight, the human condition is to maximize gain for the individual at the expense of - well everyone else - chiefly, the consumer. no one cares. everyone is content to take it up the ass repeatedly and complain about it incessantly. we are a race doomed to slaughter ourselves...how have i lost so much faith in humans? oh yeah, the last 8 years.