[Info-vax] A possible platform for VMS?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <md1t1k$8lm$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes: 

> > You people are making some very interesting assumptions about "home"
> > users.  I just moved into a new home.  I am 17 miles from the Scranton.
> > PA.  6th largest city inthe state.  Guess what.  I got no Internet.
> > Not avaialable.  Not going to be any time soon.  Only option is thru
> > DISH using HughesNET.  And if you know anything about that, very few
> > people can afford it and they specifically state what it can and can't
> > be successfully used for.  Email and HTTP.  No video, no audio, no
> > gaming.  Nothing that requires guaranteed bandwidth and low latency.
> > And I imagine that more than 50% of the US has this or less available
> > service.
> 
> I just looked up Sweden and all but a few *very* low populated areas
> in the far north has 10 Mb/s or better to over 90% of households.
> 
> The governements goal is that at least 90% of all housholds and
> business will have 100 Mb/s via fiber at year 2020.

Sweden is not the US.  :-)