Europe Not Pushing Enough Fiber to Home

The Continent doesn’t match North America or Asia in fiber-to-the-home delivery of broadband services, which could lead to slower innovation claims BusinessWeek, while blog postings from internet users claim it depends on where you are in Europe!

Europe Not Pushing Enough Fiber to Home
The Continent doesn’t match North America or Asia in fiber-to-the-home delivery of broadband services, which could lead to slower innovation. However comments on the GigaOM blog seem to contradict this story, with Americans complaining of their slow speeds, and some Europeans having access to 100mbps speeds in countries such as Denmark and Sweden. However one poster from Hong Kong says he’s got a whopping one 1gbs!
http://businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/apr2007/gb20070418_118494.htmAlso see http://gigaom.com/2007/04/17/200-kbps-is-not-broadband-2/ and http://gigaom.com/2007/04/16/100-megabits-to-the-home-by-2015/

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