Funny, how in the title refers to the Internet globally when the article is specific about the USA.
I live in europe and we have at home 100Mbps . Mid sized city of 500k people. Some ISPs even spread WiFi across town so that subscribers can have internet access outside their homes. On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Scott Brim wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:47, Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > >> I'd go so far as to say "user failure". If I wanted cable TV > >> (especially if I needed it at home as part of my job), I wouldn't > >> buy/rent/lease/whatever a home without checking that cable TV is > >> available at that location. > > > > Yeah, he messed up, but the social problem is still real. The > > Internet is now more important than electricity or water -- you can go > > off the grid or dig your own well, but more and more you can't get a > > job or talk to the government without web access and email. > > > > I have an off-the-grid location I can go to. I can get internet access > there with a VZ MIFI at speeds of 1Mb/s. What I can't get is a software > update over that service to keep my devices secure. The 5GB data cap gets > in the way. > > The current set of iphone/ipad firmware updates are about 700mb per device. > Not counting the latest combo updater (or incremental) for MacOS. > (Hopefully with the 5.0 software announced they will do OTA updates on a > different APN that doesn't count against ones data limits). > > I don't use windows so not sure what those weigh in at, but they're bound > to be a few hundred megs. > > - Jared > -- Ricardo Ferreira
