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October 15th, 2014

宽带中国,可惜可呵呵

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如果你到中关村去,想买一台电脑。看中的是一台外观神奇的机器,标识写着:英特尔,4G内存。这时候导购哥们出现了。

你问:“四核双核?”他答:“买回去试试,就知道啦”。
你问:“硬盘多大?”他说:“越贵越大,但不做保证。”
你问:“可以玩游戏吗?”他答:“运气好可以。”

你还会买这台电脑吗?一个拳头都不过分。

但是很不幸,作为中国互联网网民,在安装家庭宽带这件事情上,我们不可避免地面临着明知被骗,也要心甘情愿掏钱的讽刺。因为宽带接入是一个黑即是白,不公重复多次即为标准的行业。

猜一猜,你家的网速实际是多少?

当他们保证你4M宽带时,打开淘宝,网页却“千呼万唤始出来”;当他们收取你10M宽带的年费,你看爱奇艺,缓冲时间却约等于放映时间;他们当然也不会事先告诉你,20M的网速意味着和家人Skype时,他们的笑容永远在凝固状态。

去质问宽带接入商:说好的流畅网速到哪儿去了?接入商耸耸肩,并迅速地根据对你“柔弱程度、白痴程度、气愤程度”的判断,流利地提供给你以下说辞的一种或几种。

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September 19th, 2007

What percent of your monthly income do you pay for broadband?

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I am at Techcrunch40 (will blog about it later) but like to share this now

via Phil Wolff

Disparity between broadband haves and have-nots limit and focus Skype’s market opportunity.

Frank Bures’ Wired magazine story looks at Internet Telecommunications Union data to compare raw prices of 100 Kbps broadband access by country. In some parts of the world, broadband costs two months’ of a family’s income.

Bures lays most blame on governments for high rates; artificial scarcity, censorship, and economic discrimination through tariffs only the richest afford put money and power in government pockets.