On 10 Feb 2004, at 02:28, Anaru Hartley wrote:
Mexico has like, 100 million people and a Internet user base of 3.5 million (thank you CIA World Fact Book) yet New Zealand has 2 million and a population of somewhere around 4 million. Do you need statistics or something else? Maybe New Zealand Internet Users (aside from geeks/heavy users) simply don't need a fast Internet connection.
So it's worthwhile to roll out affordable broadband access to the 3.5% of Mexicans who use the Internet at all, but not to the 50% of New Zealanders who do? Or is your point that the extra 1.5 million Internet users in Mexico make all the difference in making it commercially viable to provide reasonable access? Or something else? My 3M residential, flat-rate ADSL service here in snow-bound Ontario is about to get upgraded to 5M with no increase in price. Course, there's competition in the local loop here. Joe