Comments on: More on the telecom-transportation tradeoff (but none of this is possible without good broadband) http://lirneasia.net/2008/07/more-on-the-telecom-transportation-tradeoff-but-none-of-this-is-possible-without-good-broadband/ LIRNEasia Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:59:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Face to Face mediation a thing of the past? « ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) http://lirneasia.net/2008/07/more-on-the-telecom-transportation-tradeoff-but-none-of-this-is-possible-without-good-broadband/#comment-12961 Face to Face mediation a thing of the past? « ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:27:40 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/2008/07/more-on-the-telecom-transportation-tradeoff-but-none-of-this-is-possible-without-good-broadband#comment-12961 [...] therein lies the caveat for those of us in Sri Lanka. We don’t have good broadband, severely vitiating our ability to save the planet by using these technologies (and even the more [...] [...] therein lies the caveat for those of us in Sri Lanka. We don’t have good broadband, severely vitiating our ability to save the planet by using these technologies (and even the more [...]

]]> By: Chanuka Wattegama http://lirneasia.net/2008/07/more-on-the-telecom-transportation-tradeoff-but-none-of-this-is-possible-without-good-broadband/#comment-12931 Chanuka Wattegama Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:33:41 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/2008/07/more-on-the-telecom-transportation-tradeoff-but-none-of-this-is-possible-without-good-broadband#comment-12931 <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/2694764824_9c53c43729.jpg?v=0" alt="Investments for submarine cables" /> Internet users in developed world benefit from the infrastructure expansions during the dot com boom when investors were convinced (wrongly, to a large extent) about an exponential increases in data traffic. This made them building even redundant capacity. Increasing capacity is easy when laying fiber as the cost of 1 Mbps link and 100 Mbps link is not that different. This resulted huge capacities of dark fiber which are being used now. No such phenomenon seen in the developing world. So cannot think the international broadband capacity will increase unless somebody wants to take a crazy bet on India and China - which is possible. A link worth reading: http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11413254 Investments for submarine cables
Internet users in developed world benefit from the infrastructure expansions during the dot com boom when investors were convinced (wrongly, to a large extent) about an exponential increases in data traffic. This made them building even redundant capacity. Increasing capacity is easy when laying fiber as the cost of 1 Mbps link and 100 Mbps link is not that different. This resulted huge capacities of dark fiber which are being used now.

No such phenomenon seen in the developing world. So cannot think the international broadband capacity will increase unless somebody wants to take a crazy bet on India and China - which is possible.

A link worth reading: http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11413254

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