The Shrine

What? In the US - and Canada, by extension - the ISPs are maximizing numbers of users, providing minimal service in comparison to the majority of the rest of the civilized world, charging more than many of those other nations providing far superior service, and the people here just sit there and take it, happily paying these companies and being more than content with what they have as they mostly don't know better? It's so unlike the corporations here to do so and the governments to let them get away with it. It's fucking SHOCKING!!!!

Now that the insane sarcasm is over, haven't I been saying the same shit in different words for the better part of a decade when it comes to both Internet and cell phone services provided to us here on this continent? Imagine, as bad as it is in the US, it's even worse up here

Zeus wrote:haven't I been saying the same shit in different words for the better part of a decade when it comes to both Internet and cell phone services provided to us here on this continent? Imagine, as bad as it is in the US, it's even worse up here

In addition to the higher cost for shitty service it seems EUR and JAP have better technolohy for electronics and cell phones, too. Better service, better hardware... sucks!

Zeus wrote:What? In the US - and Canada, by extension

I wouldn't lump us in with the US, Canada ranks 8th for Internet speeds. The phone companies here for the past 2 years have been on a quest to get fiber connections up everywhere; they had a 10 year goal.
So we're behind, but not for long. They have fiber going up here and in New Brunswick at least.
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I'll be wiring 4 of my rooms for fiber this weekend at the new house.

Flip wrote:http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090825 ... 0825230334

Blame Comcast and DSL.

Tupac Seekur wrote:

Zeus wrote:What? In the US - and Canada, by extension

I wouldn't lump us in with the US, Canada ranks 8th for Internet speeds. The phone companies here for the past 2 years have been on a quest to get fiber connections up everywhere; they had a 10 year goal.
So we're behind, but not for long. They have fiber going up here and in New Brunswick at least.
link

Sure, we may have the 8th fastest but look at how bad we are when it comes to the price for the speed. Only the UK and Spain out of all the other "big" nations pay more per mbit of service. Many of the others have are largely poverty ridden. Iceland pays less for cryin' out loud

There's a little bit more to it than "the US sucks"... anyone else notice that the top countries are all tiny? It's a lot easier to upgrade your infrastructure when you don't have nearly as much land mass to pull it across, so I have to cut us at least a little slack. The US has the most people spread out across the most area with I would assume one of the highest demands for internet.

It's not an excuse for all of it, but it definitely plays a big part.

Tessian wrote:There's a little bit more to it than "the US sucks"... anyone else notice that the top countries are all tiny? It's a lot easier to upgrade your infrastructure when you don't have nearly as much land mass to pull it across, so I have to cut us at least a little slack. The US has the most people spread out across the most area with I would assume one of the highest demands for internet.

It's not an excuse for all of it, but it definitely plays a big part.

Oh, for sure that's a factor......at least it was at one point. In Canada, aside from some very rural areas, our telecom companies completed their upgrades to a fiber-op infrastructure that can handle WAAAAAAY more service than what we get currently. At this point, it ain't about infrastructure anymore, it's about an oligopoly - with the help of government regulators - hosing the consumer because they can.