Josh Bailey <josh@vandervecken.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Jonathan Santaana wrote:
>
> > broadband of any flavour is still not available, and won't be for quite
> > some time.
>
> Certainly. However, this is not relevant to my point - that the service as
> a whole is inferior to what I expect (and obtain) internationally.

  My point was that, IMHO, even a comparatively highly-priced, somewhat
spotty service cannot reasonably be considered inferior to having no
available service at all.

  Your examples so far have all been from California. This area has a
very high number of high-tech industries, and consequently has both a lot
of demand for things like broadband Internet connections, and a strong
infrastructure to support them. I do not consider this "international".

> > Were they also in the NZ situation of having extremely limited
> > bandwidth to the content most users wish to access?
>
> Yes.

  Cite? I'm not saying I don't believe you, but this is certainly not the
case for a company in California (or other high-population area of the US)
providing DSL service to regular consumers, and I haven't seen you give
any other examples yet.

   Jonathan

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Received on Tue Oct 31 13:25:10 2000