[dba-Tech] Web Connection speeds

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Mon Jan 18 14:27:26 CST 2010


"give our countrys' the structure to develop businesses in any area on the
continent."  this assumes, of course, that the current infrastructure is
significantly inhibiting commerce.  But I don't know that that's the case.
I mean, I wonder if the average speed number can correlate to any economic
consequence. 

R

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:05 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
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Good questions John...

I would suspect that our large rural areas have an effect on these
statistics especially when small densities of people make the expansion of
high speed internet costs prohibitive. The federal, provincial and municipal
government did implement a fiber-optic backbone across the province but it
is only used by the government. No joy there for the general population.

On the other hand, countries like South Korea and Japan have a 50 percent
fiber optic adoption ratio and many countries (over 20 at last count) are
trying to get-an-edge by creating an enterprise friendly environment within
their country. We do not even have a national fiber-optic program here.

IMHO, I do not believe it is a situation that can not be left to linger for
years... is would be like not having a national railway in the 1900s. I
think a pro-active approach would give our countrys' the structure to
develop businesses in any area on the continent... especially in mid western
and the manufacturing areas which have been so hard hit by the current
recession. 

Jim


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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 11:01 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Web Connection speeds

Jim,
Interesting.

Does the size of national area affect how quickly the new technologies can
be implemented across the nation?

Is there a number of users relationship to speed? Some nations are losing
speed which may be because more users are starting to use the same,
unchanged network.

Might it also be that some of these nations may not have many rural users?
North American countries have a high percentage of their rural users
connected. Many of these are left with little choice other than dial-up at
this time.

Questions, questions, questions...

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