Russ George <[email protected]> wrote: Communications costs are already an order of magnitude lower than those in > the USA in many countries of the world, without any strange new technology. >
Okay, so this will be 2 orders of magnitude cheaper than the U.S. Internet service in Japan seems to be $20 to $40, versus about $80 in Atlanta. It is not an order of magnitude, but it is cheaper. I have heard that third world service is cheap but bandwidth is low and they charge a lot if you start using U.S. levels of data, such as watching Netflix. Even slow speed, low bandwidth Internet service is a godsend to the people in the third world. It is saving millions of dollars and thousands of lives, and enhancing people's quality of life. At this moment, Google is installing a fiber network in my neighborhood in Atlanta. They somehow got permission to install a "shack" (small building) in a public park (Blackburn Park). Anyway, they are digging up roads and stringing things everywhere. My guess is that the overall cost is horrendous. This is to provide gigabit fiber service. How they will make money selling this at $70 a month is beyond me. https://fiber.google.com/cities/atlanta/?feeditemid=&targetid=kwd-132451673297&loc_physical_ms=9010952&loc_interest_ms=1015254&adpos=1t1&matchtype=e&network=g&device=c&channel=paidsearch&gclid=Cj0KEQjw8pC9BRCqrq37zZil4a0BEiQAZO_zrJUqQfjT18q9-9C-xn6tOXkn0mpzmdXhhBbXK1t4aEgaArDy8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds - Jed
