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Hello Matt - 

CA>> "Broadband internet began a few years ago and has reached
CA>> now 6.9 per cent of the population in America and 2.3 per
CA>> cent in the UK. Several countries, most notably South
CA>> Korea, have higher penetrations (21.4 per cent)." 

MM> Some of the reasons for this is the cost involved. Here in
MM> the USA, telephone service is relatively cheap, while it is
MM> VERY expensive in continental Europe. Conversely, T-1 lines
MM> are very cheap in Europe, and expensive over here! 

Apparently what you say is true, yes. 

CA>> "Using mobile phone penetration as an example, Hungary
CA>> (67.60), Estonia (65.02), the Slovak Republic (54.36), and
CA>> Croatia (53.50) all had higher mobile phone penetration
CA>> than the United States (48.81) in 2002. Mobile telephony
CA>> was only the start; broadband could be next." 

MM> Following with my previous comment above, Europeans are
MM> more likely to connect a T-1 line to their computer and get
MM> a moble phone, thus avoiding the high cost of the telephone
MM> altogether. 

Possibly. I suspect parts of Europe just have cr*ppy land lines. 

The relevance (for me) is when Linux (for instance) makes 700
meg ISO image files available for download and thinks they are
doing everyone a huge favor. :-\ 

At least two ISPs that I know of (Verizon and PeoplePC) are
disconnecting every 4-5 hours regardless of activity online
(keepalive is not the issue). With a 56k dialup you are doing
good to get 1 meg in 4 minutes. Do the math and you find that
without a 'resume' for the download those of us on dialup (93%
of the USA) have no way to download those huge files. So ... do
they offer them in smaller 'chunks'? NO way! If Linux 'distros'
were offered as 40meg chunks to be reassembled into an ISO
image file once they were downloaded there _might_ be more
Linux users than there are now. Mabye not, but it's worth a try
IMO. 

Throw in the belief we can all stream at 128kbps and you have
lousy streaming video and lousy streaming audio. Unless the
American audience is of no interest to these people they need
to wake up to the realities and get with the program. :-) 

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