ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

Tue Aug 23 23:19:17 UTC 2005

On 24-aug-2005, at 1:04, Michael Painter wrote:

>>> US is trailing other industrial countries in broadband penetration

>> I'm not sure that's the case, AFAIK the US holds its own.

> Graph at the bottom of the article.

> http://www.mbc-thebridge.com/viewbridge.cfm?instance_id=304

No, the one you want is around the middle. US looks like just under  
13% at #12, while 2-3 are around the 18% mark and 17-20 at around 8%.  
So this looks like a nice comfortable spot right in the middle. It's  
remarkable that US DSL penetration is unusually low, there is only  
one other country where this is below 5%, while many countries have  
very little cable.