Comments on: After a Shaky 2008, U.S. Broadband Growth Picks Up http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/after-a-shaky-2008-u-s-broadband-growth-picks-up/ Wed, 22 May 2013 15:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Broadband Growth Falls Sharply in the U.S. http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/after-a-shaky-2008-u-s-broadband-growth-picks-up/#comment-210939 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:12:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49743#comment-210939 [...] 2009, U.S. service providers added less than 650,000 new accounts, down more than 50 percent from 1.6 million additions in the first quarter. (Stats below the [...]

]]> By: DG Lewis http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/after-a-shaky-2008-u-s-broadband-growth-picks-up/#comment-210938 Fri, 15 May 2009 14:53:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49743#comment-210938 Actually, MPEG-4 AVC can do HD very well at 8 Mb/s and tolerably at 6 Mb/s. But I quibble.

]]> By: Dave Rusin http://gigaom.com/2009/05/13/after-a-shaky-2008-u-s-broadband-growth-picks-up/#comment-210937 Wed, 13 May 2009 21:28:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=49743#comment-210937 The underlying question remains: what type of speed are customers getting? With video applications taking off like a rocket, HD channels needing at least 10 megabits each, petabyte storage aka “Cloud Computing” — I think it’s less about penetration today and more about robustness/speed. I could be wrong.

Anyone catch Australia’s announcement a few weeks back — they (Public/Private Partnership) are going to fiber 90% of the country in 5 years. Minimum bandwidth to every home and biz on the fiber into the premise is 100m megabits.

The 10% that can’t be cost effectively served by fiber – they will get satellite.

America is woefully behind other advanced countries relative to speed — we (USA) have feel good numbers on penetration but the economic engine requires gobs of bandwidth. Our minimum national standard should be 100 megabits — what is our penetration rate at 100 megabits? Answer: Embarrassing

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