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Well, we can argue against that. It's best to say that both USA, and EU are very, very bureaucratised, and regulated. It's just one is marginally better at not
by baybal2 6y ago
Well, we can argue against that.
It's best to say that both USA, and EU are very, very bureaucratised, and regulated. It's just one is marginally better at not introducing damaging regulations than the other.
Japan too had 100mb/s since nineties for example, and theeeen..... they stuck. Speeds there not been rising by much since because regulations froze in nineties, and so did the market.
Countries which had near zero telecommunication regulations covering the Internet, or had no Internet as such did advance more uniformly.
I can have a 500mb/s over GPON, or even a symmetric gigabit over 1000BASE-LX even in *stan countries, and Africa these days. Fiberlink has 1Gbs for $30 a month in Lahore. PCTL is starting a 10Gb/s GPON trial in Islamabad.
Single mode fibre based tech is much cheaper to deploy, and maintain than any legacy tech, and properly designed GPON net probably being the cheapest option ever.
- panny 6y ago>Japan too had 100mb/s since nineties for example, and theeeen..... they stuck. Speeds there not been rising by much since because regulations froze in nineties, and so did the market. https://hothardware.com/news/japanese-10-gbps-internet https://hothardware.com/news/japanese-10-gbps-internet You can get 1 Gbps service in Japanese farm towns.
- Tor3 6y agoI had (and still have, when I get back after Corona) fiber to the home in Japan. That fiber was installed some fifteen years ago, it was just a phone call away and then the fiber was hitched on the poles and into the house (everything goes on poles in Japan..). This is a nearly rural area by the way. Japan is not 'stuck' on 100Mbit - 1Gbit was only approximately 2-3 dollars more per month, compared to 100Mbit/s a few years ago.
- anthk 6y ago>everything goes on poles in Japan..) Ah yes, the infamous wired mess in the Japanese media.