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> I have no idea how the Koreans do it, but they do it. It helps when your country is ~40k square miles. That's about the size of Kentucky.
by leetrout 11y ago
> I have no idea how the Koreans do it, but they do it.
It helps when your country is ~40k square miles. That's about the size of Kentucky.
- throwaway2048 11y agoMany large US urban centers meet or exceed the density of Seoul, this is a totally bunk argument when you get $10000 of overage charges in downtown new york.
- wlesieutre 11y agoOn the other hand, the infrastructure in dense areas is probably used to subsidize the more sparsely populated infrastructure. In some markets, you'd have a new player pop in covering just the city at the actual cost of running the system in a densely populated area. For cell networks, there's not as much market for a phone that stops working when you go 5 miles west.
- pyvpx 11y agowhat helps even more is abundant fiber accessibility. if every tower in Kentucky had ten gigabit circuits for backhaul, you'd see 4TB for ~$50 be viable there too.