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The problem is that america is almost a monopoly, no other country really has these problems[0] [0] http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-int
by crashandburn4 12y ago
The problem is that america is almost a monopoly, no other country really has these problems[0]
[0] http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-internet-middleman/ http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-inte...
- lotsofmangos 12y agoCheers for posting that, was pretty enlightening.
- crashandburn4 12y agoNo problem, I found it on hacker news and as always here the comments[0] are almost as enlightening as the piece itself. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7699862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7699862
- lotsofmangos 12y agoI'm in the UK and I thought the situation here was pretty terrible on the basis that if you go out into the sticks things get pretty slow. There's a joke, that BT develops core telecoms technologies and sells them across the world. Then when they are finally obsolete, it installs them in Britain. However it sounds like the US has cities running on worse than you get over here in farming villages.
- crashandburn4 12y agoI've always thought of the UK as quite good but I'm in london so have easy access to fibre-optic.