I don’t think it has as much to do with rich or poor but with “competitiveness” or rather lack thereof.
This can be deduced from statements like “demand for fibre in the community and lack of alternatives (which influence our penetration in a suburb)”, especially the latter part of this statement. Judging from the pricing I’ve seen on FTTH products (not to mention lower risk of cable theft &/or lightning damage), this level of risk aversion from ISP’s seems rather pitiful – especially seeing as most of these services come with contractual strings attached.
Not a single person I know who pay monthly subscriptions for ADSL services (myself included), won’t jump at the first hint of a FTTH service in their residential areas. Perhaps I’ve got it wrong, but from where I’m standing it would seem that this market sector is so well protected from competition that their comfort zones must be a significant reason for the poor growth in this technology field.
Add to this a national government who is highly averse to public access to information and we have a good recipe for the snail-paced growth we currently observe.
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I don’t think it has as much to do with rich or poor but with “competitiveness” or rather lack thereof.
This can be deduced from statements like “demand for fibre in the community and lack of alternatives (which influence our penetration in a suburb)”, especially the latter part of this statement. Judging from the pricing I’ve seen on FTTH products (not to mention lower risk of cable theft &/or lightning damage), this level of risk aversion from ISP’s seems rather pitiful – especially seeing as most of these services come with contractual strings attached.
Not a single person I know who pay monthly subscriptions for ADSL services (myself included), won’t jump at the first hint of a FTTH service in their residential areas. Perhaps I’ve got it wrong, but from where I’m standing it would seem that this market sector is so well protected from competition that their comfort zones must be a significant reason for the poor growth in this technology field.
Add to this a national government who is highly averse to public access to information and we have a good recipe for the snail-paced growth we currently observe.