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The ISP's received lots of money from the government to build the "roads", except they didn't. They didn't invest in the required infrastructure and instead cre
by dalore 14y ago
The ISP's received lots of money from the government to build the "roads", except they didn't. They didn't invest in the required infrastructure and instead created monopolies and provided poor service and are now complaining they dont have the infrastructure. So now you have a country who invented internet and should be at the forefront of every aspect of it, lagging behind a lot of other countries in terms of infrastructure.
- josh2600 14y agoI take exception to your implication that the US lags behind other countries in terms of Infrastructure. There are two classes of Internet access in the US: Residential/SMB and Enterprise. We have a second world Residential/SMB bandwidth economy, but I would argue that the US has the only true first world Enterprise Bandwidth Economy. If you think of laid capacity in terms of terabits, the US is the clear winner. The ISPs built massive highways but they didn't build the community roads necessary for normal people to tap into all this capacity. The bottlenecks for residential bandwidth are at the DSLAMs at the bottom of your street and not in the core routing systems for the biggest carriers. It's tragic, but the US has a super stratified system. Enterprise users get amazing cheap bandwidth and everyone else is second class.
- ripperdoc 14y agoOperators in all countries are worried about reduced profits due to expensive data traffic, and all operators have paid large amount of money to governments for their licenses. So yes, they did build the roads.