I beleive the issue is not so much the last mile as the middle mile. In the UK, where the story is based, BT is heavily regulated to be open access and must sell wholesale transit at the same competitive rate to all comers.. j On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Houle Louis <Louis.Houle@isocquebec.org> wrote:
In Canada, in US also, and the business model that is being followed by incumbents will probably never work in regional areas. This is why ISOC Quebec supported Connect Quebec for remote areas since 2007. The main problem that we face is : a) the lack of expertise in Internet technologies by local authorities in rural regions; b) a propensity to believe that Mother Bell (or any other known incumbent) will finally offer the last mile High Speed service.
Question 1: If you spend 1M$ to expand fiber for 1M dwellers living in a 100 square kilometers area, what will be your income? Question 2: If you spend 150K$ to expand fiber in a 150K dwellers living in a 1M square kilometers area, what will be your excuse during the annual stakeholders meeting?
Louis Houle Président La Société Internet du Québec (ISOC Québec) Louis.Houle@isocquebec.org
Le 2013-02-18 09:46, Garth Bruen a écrit :
On the last call there was some discussion about slow speeds in Canada
-----Original Message----- From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [mailto:na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Joly MacFie Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 7:16 PM To: Glenn McKnight Cc: NA Discuss Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] DIY Broadband- High Speed solutions for remote areas
And this relates to NARALO, how?
j
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Glenn McKnight <glenn.mcknight@ieee.org> wrote:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/02/14/172011262/diy-br oadband-comes-to-the-english-countryside
In a fast-moving world, people from all over have demanded faster Internet speeds. But when you live out in the middle of nowhere, you can feel like you're in the Internet slow lane because broadband just
isn't available.
Residents of England's rural Lancashire decided that enough was enough with their slow, limited connections. They came to the conclusion that no major supplier would be out their way anytime soon, the BBC reports<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21442348>. Broadband companies said it would be too expensive to wire up the sparsely populated area.
So Lancashire residents took matters into their own hands and createdB4RN<http://b4rn.org.uk/> (pronounced "barn") - Broadband for the Rural North. [image: In much of America, the availability of online video is often frustrated by slow broadband speeds. In this 2011 photo, Valerie Houde waits for a dial-up Internet connection in East Burke, Vt.]<http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/10/25/163570116/w atching-tv-online-often-exposes-slow-bandwidth> All Tech Considered <http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/>Watching TV Online Often Exposes Slow Bandwidth<http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/10/25/163570 116/watching-tv-online-often-exposes-slow-bandwidth> [image: Broadband Internet access at home.]<http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/03/23/149215373 /tracking-high-speed-internet-in-your-neighborhood> All Tech Considered <http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/>Tracking High-Speed Internet In Your Neighborhood<http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/03/23/149 215373/tracking-high-speed-internet-in-your-neighborhood>
Funded and operated by volunteers in the community, B4RN digs trenches to lay the fiber optic wires necessary to connect the residents to super-high-speed Internet for less than $50 per month.
A few locals have already been hooked up to the local network and their once ancient and tired computers are catching up with the times. Resident Harry Ball tells the BBC he's thrilled to be getting download speeds of 500 Mbps. "That's fabulous, isn't it?" he says.
By comparison, the average U.S. Internet connection speed is a pokey 7.2 Mbps and the U.K. average is 6.3 Mbps, according to Akamai<http://www.akamai.com/dl/akamai/q3_2012_soti_infographic.pdf>. But both lag behind South Korea, which averages 14.7 Mbps (with average peaks of 48.8 Mbps).
Watch the BBC's report <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21455795>.
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