Why Every American Should Hate Hong Kong

[Lemur]

... and Japan, South Korea, Finland, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Canada, Poland, Norway, Austria, Belgium, Iceland and Germany. In that order. Death to the broadband hogs! I want a fast connection too!

It ain't right. And Hong Kong really has me cheesed off:

Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited ("HKBN") today announced a revolution in Hong Kong's broadband market, being the first Internet service provider in Hong Kong to launch Fiber-To-The- Home (FTTH) residential broadband services, "FiberHome100". Significantly, HKBN has turned traditionally cost prohibitive FTTH technology into affordable mass-deployed residential service, at US$48.5 service fee for its 100Mbps access service.

Less than fifty bucks for 100mbps? [whine]That's not fair![/whine] To get 30mbps in the U.S. costs $180 per month. Argh! Double-argh!

[The Wizard]

Too bad for Japan that housing there doesn't provide enough space for one of them huge like Xbox desktops.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Ours is always going to be slow because our country is so big. Honk kong needs way less cable than we do.

[Blodrast]

Ours is always going to be slow because our country is so big. Honk kong needs way less cable than we do.

Ah, that's the reason. Couldn't have anything to do with the $200 billion broadband-related scandal and with the telco monopolies (which are rebuilding, after having been broken up 20 years ago).

You know you can do better than that. If geographical issues were the only problem, then I'd expect small (geographically speaking) areas with high density of population to have really really good broadband prices and services (comparable to Asia, Scandinavia) - for example Silicon Valley, New York, etc.
Do they ?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Ah, that's the reason. Couldn't have anything to do with the $200 billion broadband-related scandal and with the telco monopolies (which are rebuilding, after having been broken up 20 years ago).

You know you can do better than that. If geographical issues were the only problem, then I'd expect small (geographically speaking) areas with high density of population to have really really good broadband prices and services (comparable to Asia, Scandinavia) - for example Silicon Valley, New York, etc.
Do they ?

I don't know?? The chart shows average. A big reason for our slow average is that we got all the early infrastructure in place and it's expensive to replace it all. I'm not some telco goon trying to cover up a scam I don't know anything about that stuff.

My school has 100 Mbit broadband.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Fifth!

Sasaki, Finland and Sweden are as sparsely populated as the US, and come in third and fourth place. The UK is almost as densely populated as Japan, and comes in at place 237.
You can't compare Hong Kong with Montana of course, but on the whole, size or density of population don't seem to be decisive factors.

I'm so tempted now to post huge, bandwith gobbling pictorial jokes between the Scandinavians and French in which we get to enjoy poking fun at all you 56k third world countries.

[Blodrast]

I don't know?? The chart shows average. A big reason for our slow average is that we got all the early infrastructure in place and it's expensive to replace it all. I'm not some telco goon trying to cover up a scam I don't know anything about that stuff.

My school has 100 Mbit broadband.

No, they do not. My question was rhetorical.
You may recall that there was a thread a while ago, titled "How much do you pay for your internet ?" or something like that. I also know people (friends, acquaintances) who live in California, for example (Silicon Valley), and I have a fair idea of what's available and for how much.

I could provide links, but it's not easy to filter truth from agendas, and I believe everybody should read several pieces and make up their own mind about it. (Besides which, I'd prolly also be accused of wearing a tinfoil hat and hating corporations, half of which is true. So instead of trying to convince people, I'll just let people make up their own minds.)

So, if you or anyone else would care to find out a bit more about it, google 200 billion dollars, broadband, telco, promise ... (the 200 billion is the actual figure, I didn't pull that out of thin air).

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Ours is always going to be slow because our country is so big. Honk kong needs way less cable than we do.

Then why is Canada's faster than yours?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Then why is Canada's faster than yours?

Because they have 1/10th the population and northern canada is largely empty

[Xiahou]

Because they have 1/10th the population and northern canada is largely empty

And 90% of them live within 100 miles of the US border.