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Why content stays narrow when broadband goes fat

[George Ou | 1 Oct 2009 | 10 Comments | ]

I was chatting with someone over the FCC announcement that it would cost $350B to give every home fiber. But thinking about it, we’ll just end up like Japan where they have cheap fast shared broadband for the residential market, but the dedicated server bandwidth in Japan and elsewhere is extremely expensive (even more so [...]

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