{"id":615,"date":"2007-01-15T18:10:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T16:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=615"},"modified":"2007-01-15T18:10:03","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T16:10:03","slug":"internet-speeds-in-usa-vs-europeeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Internet Speeds in USA vs Europe\/East Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know this sounds hard to believe, but it\u00b4s true. I was in Silicon Valley last week, at the offices of our partners Google and Sequoia Capital<\/a> and this is a fact: the most successful internet company in the world, Google, and the most successful VC in the world, Sequoia Capital, have their executives surfing the internet slower speeds than the average European or Asian at home.
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\nThe only reasonable internet speeds I have found in America are those provided by cable TV companies. DSL there is on the average much slower than in Europe or Asia. One reason may be lack of competition, the other one may be that the average distance of a home from a central office is greater as people in America live further away from each other. <\/p>\n

Internet at FON\u00b4s offices in Union Square, San Francisco, also is super slow compared to our Madrid\u00b4s office. This phenomenom may also explain why American web sites are so “light” looking compared to European web sites. See for example Youtube<\/a> vs European rivals Sevenload<\/a>, Vpod<\/a> or Daily Motion<\/a>. The Youtube, and others including Yahoo, Google, eBay, are sites designed for bandwidth poor environments. European sites don\u00b4t need to and this when telco offers are as good as the one of Neuf<\/a> in France where you get up to 20 megs for 15 euros. <\/p>\n

As a result what you see is European and Asian content companies specializing in bandwidth intensive apps and American companies specializing in massive, fast apps and end up building more valuable companies.<\/p>\n

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I know this sounds hard to believe, but it\u00b4s true. I was in Silicon Valley last week, at the offices of our partners Google and Sequoia Capital and this is a fact: the most successful internet company in the world, Google, and the most successful VC in the world, Sequoia Capital, have their executives surfing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t