America the Slow

The general experience in the United States is that we pay an amount usually between 20 amp8211 75 a month to get a bandwidth speed of some 50 MB megabytes per second We donamp8217t necessarily like to pay that much but for those of us that remember the old dialup years of Internet 10 we have a relative sense of speed and it makes us feel good We can quickly upload pictures to Facebook or watch a video on YouTube We now complain when the amp8220Internet is slowamp8221 or that the connection is not up to our current standardsNow in comparison to some other countries we really do have a reason to complain about the slowness of our connection even if it is what we have come to experience as fast In Hong Kong and in South Korea there are new services that have come online pun intended that provide one gigabyte per second speed for downloading and uploading One gigabyte per second That is 20 times faster than the 50MB speed most of us have in our connected homesOf course once something like this happens it makes anything else seem not only slow but allows us to question that slowness Our relatively current sense of speed has now been shown to be slow and outdated We are behind the times The cutting edge is elsewhere we are slower than others in the worldThis also begins to make us question why we are paying so much for such slowness If for the sake of argument you pay 50 a month for roughly 50MB downloadupload speed you are paying 1 per month per MB of speed One gigabyte is 1000 megabytes MB The relatively new Hong Kong service is charging 25 a month for one gigabyte per second speed That translates into 025 per MB or 25 cents Reflect on that for a minute At 50 per MB you are paying 2000 times as much for your bandwidth speed as someone subscribing to the new service in Hong KongThe next time you hear your Internet service provider talk about their great deal or suggest they might have to raise prices or monitor amount of bandwidth used call them up and ask they why they are charging you 2000 time more than is available elsewhere in the world If you do I would love to hear what they say Feel free to email me at daviddavidhoulecom with their comments Internet providers want to call us data hogs Compared to services in Hong Kong and South Korea they are slow bottlenecksIn the realm of broadband speed America is now the land of the slow and the incredibly expensiveDavid Houle is a futurist strategist and speaker He has always been slightly ahead of the curve Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment Most recently David is a featured contributor to Oprahcom Check is out here wwwoprahcomdavidhoule David can be contacted at DavidDavidHoulecomRead all Davidamp8217s MediaBizBloggers commentaries at Evolution ShiftCheck us out on Facebook at MediaBizBloggerscomFollow our Twitter updates MediaBizBloggerMediaBizBloggers is an openthought leadership blog platform for media marketing and advertising professionals companies and organizations To contribute contact Jackmediadvisorygroupcom The opinions expressed in MediaBizBloggerscom are not those of Media Advisory Group its employees or other MediaBizBloggerscom contributors Media Advisory Group accepts no responsibility for the views of MediaBizBloggers authors

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