Cry us a river...

[brooko]

I found this article just now... The american's think they've got it bad over there when it comes to broadband pricing...haha, they should have a look at our prices, it should be enough to make them eternally greatfull for what they have

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/10/18/broadband/index_np.html

 

[brooko]

oh an here's the slashdotted post with them all moaning about the high price of bandwidth LOL...

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/18/1931258&from=rss

 

[WiseCrack]

Prices that will make you sweat

 

[Keenyn]

Since most of us are now capped at this time of month this is what is stated on the site. Telkom take note you blood thirsty vampirez!

Tenken writes "Salon has an article about the state of broadband in America. After seeing what many other countries have accomplished with their broadband markets, namely Japan, Korea, and (gasp) even Canada, the current state of affairs in the U.S. is looking pretty dismal. I'm sure I'm not the only one tired of paying $45 a month just for cable internet." From the article: "Across the globe, it's the same story. In France, DSL service that is 10 times faster than the typical United States connection; 100 TV channels and unlimited telephone service cost only $38 per month. In South Korea, super-fast connections are common for less than $30 per month. Places as diverse as Finland, Canada and Hong Kong all have much faster Internet connections at a lower cost than what is available here. In fact, since 2001, the U.S. has slipped from fourth to 16th in the world in broadband use per capita. While other countries are taking advantage of the technological, business and education opportunities of the broadband era, America remains lost in transition."

 

[brooko]

well i was gonna post a nice reply to the slashdot article mentioning myadsl and hellkom for them to have a look at how bad it is here and for them to stop whining, but all the ip's i'm getting allocated by SAIX are banned on their system and so i cant post a reply / login... Yes, i've tried reconnecting, but i've now tried 6 times, and have lost hope...

 

[krycor]

haha i wish we had what thye have there.. sadly here we are restricly to only a few channels, and countable on hand bandwidth which is shapped with a ping time of 300+ms. kinda reminds me when i a friend from there complained that he is getting a ping of 50ms and was dissatisfied cause he use to get 35ms with a different provider. which reminds me why the heck do tv's come with those nice bright stickers saying '55 channels!!' when you basically only got 4 or 5 in SA or 6 with sat but then you pay for it.