Drithius
Magic & Loss
Sigh... heh. As I sit in nothern Florida, renting a modem from my ISP for 10mbs service.
Look at those prices! San Fransisco doesn't exactly seem like the best place for geeks.
I wish — my parents are still running at ISDN (7 kb/sec) with no flat rate available whatsoever; they have to pay per minute (!). I mean, how smegged up is that?Most rural areas in Germany are still stuck with no DSL or slow DSL (<3Mbits). The price is always the same though: 25-50€ for a flat rate, often with phone.
That's it mostly. You're looking at an infrastructure installation pretty much anywhere you go (which also contributes to the high cost), so the providers tend to create "exclusive service areas" by not overlapping their installations much.what is the reason for the high prices in US? not enough competition between providers?
That's nothing but an excuse even if it's true. It still doesn't explain the lack of competition, high prices, and false advertising that is going on right now.mostly about Couch's comment:
Well another piece of the price pie is coverage. How hard is it to cover a little bitty country like South Korea versus the massive United States? Everybody has to pay the piper so that Joe Blow in the boondocks can have internet Europeans that have not traveled extensively in the United States have no idea how large this country is. We are 96 times larger than South Korea. That's a lot of infrastructure
Nut, just to put your comment in perspective, Oz is as large as the US, with a fraction of the number of people, yet while needing the same amount of infrastructure to cover the land mass, we have FAR fewer people to pay for it (22 million) yet our costs are similar to your I believe.