Comments on: PEW report on broadband adoption – 47% have high speed at home http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/09/pew-broadband Because these are the early days of a long revolution . . . Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sal Darji http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/09/pew-broadband#comment-128914 Sal Darji Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:11:52 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/09/pew-broadband/#comment-128914 Thanks for the link. I've seen <a href="http://news.com.com/2110-1034_3-6160422.html" rel="nofollow">some estimates</a> that 90% of Korean households are wired for broadband. I just find it peculiar that a country known for inefficient markets (Chaebols and other anti-competitive measures) is far ahead of us. We give geographic "franchises" out to our cable companies. I suspect that these aren't competitive enough and that the price hasn't fallen as much as it should have. On top of that, our services are of very poor quality and are often throttled for various reasons. 4G technologies should solve the geography challenge once we have them in place. Which means the cell phone companies, tower companies, and content providers should make a lot of loot. Thanks for the link. I’ve seen some estimates that 90% of Korean households are wired for broadband.

I just find it peculiar that a country known for inefficient markets (Chaebols and other anti-competitive measures) is far ahead of us.

We give geographic “franchises” out to our cable companies. I suspect that these aren’t competitive enough and that the price hasn’t fallen as much as it should have. On top of that, our services are of very poor quality and are often throttled for various reasons.

4G technologies should solve the geography challenge once we have them in place. Which means the cell phone companies, tower companies, and content providers should make a lot of loot.

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