http://gigaom.com/2005/04/18/italians-big-french-broadband-gambit/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2005/04/18/italians-big-french-broadband-gambit/#comment-102066 Wed, 20 Apr 2005 05:17:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/04/18/italians-big-french-broadband-gambit/#comment-102066 I can’t wait to sign up for 15 Mbps symmetrical broadband service for 35 EUR per month when I get back to Amsterdam next month. I asked American ISPs why broadband is so much more expensive here and they come up with the same excuse: oh, the US is a big country, larger distances, blah blah. When I ask, well what about places like NY, SF, Philadelphia, which are urban and more densely populated – why isn’t broadband service/price there comparable to that in Paris? Silence. This is the same excuse I hear from mobile operators in the US – oh, it’s a big country, blah blah. Well, they can’t even get good mobile phone coverage in a small city like San Francisco.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2005/04/18/italians-big-french-broadband-gambit/#comment-102065 Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:36:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/04/18/italians-big-french-broadband-gambit/#comment-102065 Telecom Italia needs to get its act together on the home front before it has a prayer of winning any other market. Telecom’s customer service is notorious in Italy (see URL above for just one story…).

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