US 16th in Broadband Report

[Owen Densmore]

In a recent Friam email was an article which included a broadband  
usage chart:
     http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2005/08/19.html
     http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/images/freepresschart.png

"Here's how the data look when the FCC isn't cooking the books  
(longer is better):"
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There was also a broadband report (pdf) cited.

All this looks pretty grim.  However, after reading Freakonomics,  
I've started to be pretty suspicious of claims like these.  Its my  
bet there is a secondary driver not visible in the studies.  The  
first that springs to mind is Urban Population Density.  We're pretty  
spread out here .. are these finding just telling us we're not as  
easily served as Korea, Hong Kong and others?

     -- Owen

Owen Densmore - http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://
friam.org

[Carl Tollander]

hmmmm.
Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Canada...Nope, I think it's  something
else.
 

Owen Densmore wrote:

> In a recent Friam email was an article which included a broadband  
> usage chart:
>     http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2005/08/19.html
>     http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/images/freepresschart.png
>
> "Here's how the data look when the FCC isn't cooking the books  
> (longer is better):"
>
> There was also a broadband report (pdf) cited.
>
> All this looks pretty grim.  However, after reading Freakonomics,  
> I've started to be pretty suspicious of claims like these.  Its my  
> bet there is a secondary driver not visible in the studies.  The  
> first that springs to mind is Urban Population Density.  We're pretty  
> spread out here .. are these finding just telling us we're not as  
> easily served as Korea, Hong Kong and others?
>
>     -- Owen
>
> Owen Densmore - http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://
> friam.org
>
>
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