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If you want to use a single metric, why not use people per mile of road? This correlates well with the only network metric that matters, linear route miles of
by amazon_not 10y ago
If you want to use a single metric, why not use people per mile of road?
This correlates well with the only network metric that matters, linear route miles of cable per subscriber needed to provide service. Every (on-grid) dwelling and business is on a street or a road, so if you put a fiber cable on every road or street, then you will pass every inhabitant in the country.
Sweden has 10 people per mile of road. The US has 30 people per mile of road.
Sweden simply does better, despite having to deploy more infrastructure to provide service.
- neuromancer2701 10y agoIsn't people/mile still incorrect because you basically have islands of large dense cities with roads between them that nobody lives on.
- amazon2 10y agoPeople still live in the countryside. Rural areas aren't some uninhabited wilderness. If your aim is to provide broadband to all, you'll have to build there too. Sweden aims to do 100 Mbps to 90% of the population by 2020. Can't do that by just covering urban areas.
- refurb 10y agoRural areas aren't some uninhabited wilderness Try driving through Wyoming some time (on a highway!). You can easy drive for an hour or two and there is nothing but BLM (gov't) land all around you. No one lives there.
- WillPostForFood 10y agoApparently you can get to 86% by just covering urban areas. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS
- maxerickson 10y agoThat metric works great if you have 100% penetration. But what if a place doesn't have service on a large portion of roads? I doubt that is particularly true for this comparison, but the metric probably shouldn't reward a place with more unserved areas.
- amazon2 10y agoSweden had 98,5% xDSL coverage in 2011 and aims for 90% coverage of 100 Mbps service by 2020.
- oldmanjay 10y agoNo, my point is that these single metric comparisons are masturbation. When I asked for a halt, that wasn't an invitation to masturbate all over me next.