CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

If this is accurate, I'm moving to Japan. And I kinda figured the US wouldn't be so far down the line.

There are a number of reasons. The first is that there is a lot more competition. If I recall correctly, in the States and definitely in Canada, you have maybe one or two service providers in an area. Essentially, the government of Korea encouraged competition by offering many, many incentives for up and coming telecoms at a time that Korea Telecom, a former state-owned company, served almost everyone.

The other reason is that these other governments have made aggressive goals in terms of broadband access and have built a lot of their infrastructure around the promise of broadband. Here in North America, our governments haven't really got a plan to bring broadband, and instead are just letting the service providers get around to it when they feel like it.

One last reason is geography. The US and Canada are huge countries. Korea and Japan are a lot more densely populated, so that makes rolling out fibre a lot easier and a lot cheaper.

Essentially, what we need to do for better broadband is we need to make it a priority and come up with a strategy that doesn't amount to "broadband is important, yeah."

That makes sense... Less wiring means it's cheaper to buy. When you live right next door to the service provider... heh.

Wow Shao Feng, you're moving to Japan, I wish you well:thumb:.

I think she was joking...

I wish I was going XD

Welcome to the club XD

Heh XD

Let's see--right now, in Tokyo, the connection speed for the network I'm connected to is 54 Mbps, and my host family told me that their connection is a little bit slow because they're on the seventeenth floor. When I was in the US, I usually got a speed of about 10 Mbps. So yes, those figures look pretty accurate, at least for Japan and the US.

ha ha! that chart's pretty funny, if you think about it...until you realize that you're in the minority...

Dang...

Heh. The chart looks accurate. Let's begin our economics lesson.

The US has invested billions in getting things like regular phone and cable, which have horrid access speeds.

In many cases, the US would like to be able to do business with country A, but country A has virtually no technology infrastructure. To fix this, the US government gives lots of money to the other country to get their infrastructure in place. They install the latest technology.

It's really a question of legacy infrastructure.

That's AVERAGE broadband speeds too...

I assume it isn't average internet access speeds? (People on dialup..)

Fortunately, we live close enough to the telephone exchange to get about three times the speed indicated for Australia.

I would be interested in seeing exactly what is considered in the chart, but it appears to be business + cable broadband since it is showing us somewhere in the 5 MPS range which seems right to me.

I have Roadrunner, which Time Warner used to limit to 5-7 MPS for premium subscribers. Recently (in my area at least, perhaps everywhere) they increased the limits to 5-7 MPS for regular subscribers and up to 15 MPS for premium subscribers.

Timewarner's nice stuff. I didn't know they offered a premium thing. Oh well, we're going through Earthlink now. Saving money XD

Heh. I know I may draw fire from the envious for this but...

We just switched to Verizon FIOS in my household. A package Phone, TV and Internet deal. Except for one service outage for a couple hours, a week ago, it has been sweet. Unfortunately, a little expensive. But, I'm getting Tokyo-like connection speeds, so I'm happy.

The only drawback has been on the TV side. Time-Warner had better On-Demand service (more channels, and more anime) and I gave up my ImaginAsian TV (Verizon has AZN instead.) But, I picked up the Funimation Channel, which has been pretty cool.