Competing for Greater Mediocrity
I came across this Internet infograph on the http://www.makeuseof.com/ page and had a couple of thoughts just burst out of my head.
The US ranks 22nd overall in the world in average Internet connection speed. With the highest number of Internet Service Providers, the greatest number of data centers, servers and Web sites hosted, how do we rank so low in average connection speed?
I think that the size of the country has one thing to do with it. We’re a large country compared to the top 10 countries in the average connection speed list. But I don’t think size has everything to do with it. I think when it comes down to it, as much as we want competition to be allowed in business, there’s actually not very much competition taking place. I think we’re seeing a little more of the “set a trend and then follow it” standard by Internet Service Providers. Otherwise I think we’d see offers higher Internet connection speeds. The speeds are there, you can get it for businesses, but for residential Internet connections, the offered packages are subpar.
It’s the same with cell phone providers. I got my first cell phone back in 2000 (yes, I was a late adopter), and my plan back then was 200 minutes a month, free nights and weekends for about $40 per month. Flash forward to 2010 and my cell phone plan it a little bit better but nothing spectacular. I used to think that by now we’d see unlimited minute plans for $30-40 per month but it’s still not here. I know that there are some providers that have a version of that plan, but it’s not mainstream yet. You’d think that competition would have created these great service packages but the competition hasn’t been as fierce as we’d like it to be.
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