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Au is only slightly smaller than the USA with 25.7 million people vs just California’s 39.24 and the Netherlands have 17.53 million — but bear in mind Australia
by happytiger 4y ago
Au is only slightly smaller than the USA with 25.7 million people vs just California’s 39.24 and the Netherlands have 17.53 million — but bear in mind Australia is 186 times the size of the NDs. So it’s not surprising service is so good — the density of population makes broadband extremely profitable.
People forget. The numbers tell a really great story.
- 411111111111111 4y agoThe population density is a correlated number, but it's not necessarily an issue, which makes this into one of my pet peeves. You could have a gigantic nation which is completely centralized into one city, giving you a super low population density on paper. It's not the case in any of your example, so not really an issue here. Nonetheless...
- ghaff 4y agoFor that matter, Australia as a whole--like some other low density areas like Alaska--actually has fairly concentrated population centers.
- happytiger 4y agoYes, absolutely true. I think there’s something like 8M people just in NSW and the majority are Sydney. Only trying to provide context for the economics of density in places like Singapore and the a Netherlands, not necessarily prove the opposite use case. I just wanted to highlight a contrasting factor that is very important for fiber and other high speed service viability. There are many others! These criticisms are totally valid.