On 7/12/10 8:33 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
Ah, I must pity you who have to live with what you've got in the United States being under the rule of these tyrants. You guys probably can only dream of getting a 100MB fibre connection for 13USD/mnth or a 1GB fibre connection for 30 or so USD/mnth. I hesitate to keep the chaps in Australia on the list to be pitied now that Telstra is being dismantled.
It's okay, soon we'll have a new monopoly to whinge about: NBN Co. ;)
The real problem here is the quotas on broadband connections, although that is in part due to the cost of hauling almost all the data half-way around the globe.
The even more horrendous problem, which is so pervasive it affects everyone, is the insistence on asymmetric connections. Even when Australia does get this fabled fibre-to-the-home, it still won't be symmetric. *sigh*
Regards, Ben