Comments by "Her Royal Fluffiness Celestia, Princess of Cake" (@CakePrincessCelestia) on "How America is pushing China out of the internet" video.

  1. If they're so dirt cheap, then why do we still use mostly copper landlines for internet in 2023?
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  2. 2:44 TOMCATS!
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  3. @@talktothehat.3314 Well the thing is, I'm not exactly in an developed country in terms of internet and mobile coverage. Someone thought I was Aussie already, but I'm currently located in Germany, basically almost 3rd world in anything internet related. I got FTTC in my area in late 2015 and am still limited to 100/40MBit/s Annex-J vectoring to this day and the pings aren't that great (those actually have been a lot better with my previous 16/1 ADSL2 before that). Somewhere during next year, I'll be able to get FTTH finally. The ISPs have long been not increasing coverage because of costs and they'll be asking 800€ just for the FTTH line, but I ordered early enough so I don't have to pay that, luckily, as it's also subsidized by the country - finally. Will only be getting 500/100 though, but there's a 1000/200 option as well, but it would be 80 bucks a month. It's finally happening! BTW I've been on a 500MB mobile data plan for 40 bucks a month a few years ago while in every single neighbouring country you already could get 40GB for half the price. Here's some statistics BTW for FTTH coverage (replace the dots by actual ones, can't post working links as posts with such typically get removed): https://www·netzoekonom·de/2014/03/20/deutschland-faellt-im-breitband-wettbewerb-zurueck/ https://de·statista·com/statistik/daten/studie/415799/umfrage/anteil-von-glasfaseranschluessen-an-allen-breitbandanschluessen-in-oecd-staaten/ https://de·statista·com/infografik/3553/anteil-von-glasfaseranschluessen-in-ausgewaehlten-laendern/ I still can remember some of those where we've been behind countries like Columbia and Bolivia not so long ago (literally right before Corona hit), but can't find them anymore. Also, it happens to be that FTTH currently is most common in rural areas, because at some point they started placing that instead of upgrading the existing copper stuff for high bandwidth where no or just very slow DSL was available previously, so it's clearly affected by simple economic decisions. Urban areas are just beginning to slowly catch up finally, because they realize they have to pony up at some point. I'm writing this as an "end customer" - this has been an issue for companies, schools and institutions ever since. PS: I like how all the comments explained how stuff works and how various factors and scale impact the whole thing. I knew most of that already and just wanted to drop that meme-y comment for being in "Neuland" here.
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  4.  @michaelotoole1807  "Source: trustmebro"
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