[Info-vax] Not all HP jobs have gone to India!

[JF Mezei]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> One of my good friends (spent a week in my home this Spring) lives in the
> south of England (Romsey).  He has stated to me that he couldn't get any-
> where near the bandwidth for the prices we pay here in the states.  Maybe
> you and JF need to bark at the Unicorn and the Lion instead of at the Bald
> Eagle?

Just because you can easily find a country/location that has worse
internet access does not autromatically makes yours the best.

And to be fair, the business packages offered by Optimum online where
 Mr and Mrs VAXman live is very good.  In fact, I used those as an
example of how backward the canadian cable service was when I presented
at the CRTC last summer.

However, I would consider Mr and Mrs VAXman to be very lucky to live in
the Optimum service area because a lot of the rest of the USA is served
with much inferior and far more restictive internet access. Not as bad
as Canada has become (we used to be ranked 3rd in the world at start of
century, we have now fallen down , way down, with such low monthly usage
limits that it makes dialup start to look interesting again).

So yes, Mr VAXman has the right to brag about the size of his....
internet access, but it does not mean that this applies to all of the USA.

Many areas of the USA lack competition and the duopoly want to remain in
control without investing. A perfext example is that town in Louisiana.
After both telco and cable refused to invest to upgrade the town's
service, the town decided to roll out is own FTTH to all areas of the
city. Right away, the duopoly sued the town to try to prevent it from
rolling out the upgrades that the incumbents had said they were not
interested in.