In Reply to: Can We Get Past 1982, Please?! posted by Inmate51 on November 14, 2014 at 22:34:45:
"Downloading a high-definition movie takes about seven seconds in Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Zurich, Bucharest and Paris, and people pay as little as $30 a month for that connection. In Los Angeles, New York and Washington, downloading the same movie takes 1.4 minutes for people with the fastest Internet available, and they pay $300 a month for the privilege, according to The Cost of Connectivity, a report published Thursday by the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute."
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- In a word, corporate power. - tinear 08:31:46 11/15/14 (0)