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Why is America's Mobile internet slower then Kenya's?
Posted by CCTider on 8/10/17 at 3:41 am31
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Kenya has the world’s 14th-fastest mobile internet speed, according to a report from the content delivery network Akamai, which collects data from more 130 countries.
At 13.7 megabits per second, Kenya’s average data connection speed in the first quarter of 2017 was almost twice as fast as the global average. Kenya also beats the United States, ranked 28th with an average speed of 10.7 mbps, and South Korea, home to the fastest average speed in fixed internet connection.
We are 28th. Pretty pathetic.
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This post was edited on 8/10 at 3:42 am
re: Why is America's Mobile internet slower then Kenya's?Posted by Quarterite on 8/10/17 at 3:44 am to CCTider
Not a lot of Kenyan porn hogging all the bandwidth? Need Kenyan version of TD to confirm.
re: Why is America's Mobile internet slower then Kenya's?Posted by theantiquetiger on 8/10/17 at 3:44 am to CCTider
It's faster so the prince can email everyone in the US that he just came into a lot of money, and wants to give it to them, in order to hide it from his government.
re: Why is America's Mobile internet slower then Kenya's?Posted by ATXTiger64 on 8/10/17 at 3:47 am to CCTider
Population of people who have mobile devices with internet?
Idk...just saying not as many fighting for bandwidth.
Idk...just saying not as many fighting for bandwidth.
re: Why is America's Mobile internet slower then Kenya's?Posted by SlapahoeTribe on 8/10/17 at 4:11 am to CCTider
Size?
Kenya vs US-
Alaska didn't fit into my map.
Kenya vs US-
Alaska didn't fit into my map.
re: Why is America's Mobile internet slower then Kenya's?Posted by SamuelClemens on 8/10/17 at 4:49 am to CCTider
Bc too many dead millionaires fortunes have gone unclaimed and the government of Kenya had no other option than to seize the monies and use them wisely.
re: Why is America's Mobile internet slower then Kenya's?Posted by ksayetiger on 8/10/17 at 5:26 am to SlapahoeTribe
If you are going to compare an african country to the US you need to put it over the southeast
Lack of true competition here. The big providers have their own territories and it's nigh impossible to expand into an area that already has service providers.
Since AT&T ran the phone lines here, any competing company must lease those phone lines from AT&T. Same with cable in the ground. Wireless has a finite number of channels to broadcast on as well, similar to radio.
There's the reason phone, internet, cable, and radio stations all pretty much suck arse no matter where you go.
Since AT&T ran the phone lines here, any competing company must lease those phone lines from AT&T. Same with cable in the ground. Wireless has a finite number of channels to broadcast on as well, similar to radio.
There's the reason phone, internet, cable, and radio stations all pretty much suck arse no matter where you go.
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Government regulations have allocated all of the best and fastest spectrum to network antenna television and they refuse to stop broadcasting that shite and use the available spectrum for internet.
Wireless spectrum is not infinite.
The government has specifically carved out the spectrum. Old archaic laws about radio and antenna television clog the spectrum. Those are given the absolute gold standard spectrum. They have the most and the best.
Then you have telecommunications which is divided up among the carriers then you have public shite like Bluetooth. There's a reason Bluetooth is absolutely dog shite and your wireless router can barely reach the front of your house.
But even phone, you know how phones don't work in elevators? Well they would if the government would free up some of that gold spectrum for cellphone signals and wireless internet.
But they won't, because if they allowed that spectrum to be used for high-speed wireless internet it may actually foster competition among ISPs.
Imagine if someone could buy the old TV station that broadcasts at flawless streaming HD all over your city, and convert it to internet. It would rival ISPs and their lobbyists will not allow that to happen.
It's a other example of the government refusing to allow competition and old laws being impossible to to change. It's infuriating.
As a country we have some of the shittiest infastructure and we're talking behind technology wise because our lobbyist controlled DC cock sucking congress cannot see the forest for the trees and cannot get past next week's quarterly profit reports.
Wireless spectrum is not infinite.
The government has specifically carved out the spectrum. Old archaic laws about radio and antenna television clog the spectrum. Those are given the absolute gold standard spectrum. They have the most and the best.
Then you have telecommunications which is divided up among the carriers then you have public shite like Bluetooth. There's a reason Bluetooth is absolutely dog shite and your wireless router can barely reach the front of your house.
But even phone, you know how phones don't work in elevators? Well they would if the government would free up some of that gold spectrum for cellphone signals and wireless internet.
But they won't, because if they allowed that spectrum to be used for high-speed wireless internet it may actually foster competition among ISPs.
Imagine if someone could buy the old TV station that broadcasts at flawless streaming HD all over your city, and convert it to internet. It would rival ISPs and their lobbyists will not allow that to happen.
It's a other example of the government refusing to allow competition and old laws being impossible to to change. It's infuriating.
As a country we have some of the shittiest infastructure and we're talking behind technology wise because our lobbyist controlled DC cock sucking congress cannot see the forest for the trees and cannot get past next week's quarterly profit reports.
This post was edited on 8/10 at 6:25 am
re: Why is America's Mobile internet slower then Kenya's?Posted by kywildcatfanone on 8/10/17 at 6:33 am to CCTider
I'm guessing there are only like 5 cell phones in Kenya.
I work in telecom so I can give a little input.
Truth be told it comes down to money.
The FCC released 600Mhz spectrum not to long ago. I am currently on the team building that infrastructure for TMO.
You also have 700Mhz open
800-900Mhz for more Celluar/SMR
1900 is dedicated to PCS
1700/2100Ghz is dedicated to AWS
5Ghz is unlicensed and 6Ghz and above isn't up for sale yet.
We are currently working on a solution for 3.1-3.7Ghz shared spectrum across all carriers.
Problem is the major 4 carriers in the US have old networks they are unwilling to upgrade immediately. So you have old GSM/WCDMA networks still blasting RF. Only in major population centers you will find LTE/LTE-A with CA and/or MIMO most of the time.
Not to mention most carriers are looking for small cell solutions instead of actual macro site solutions. Small cells are intended to fill in the gaps in major population centers. Especially in large buildings where propagation can be tricky.
It costs money to do the R&D / FOA / Push to Live Network / Service.
Kenya doesn't have to worry about all this shite lol.
Truth be told it comes down to money.
The FCC released 600Mhz spectrum not to long ago. I am currently on the team building that infrastructure for TMO.
You also have 700Mhz open
800-900Mhz for more Celluar/SMR
1900 is dedicated to PCS
1700/2100Ghz is dedicated to AWS
5Ghz is unlicensed and 6Ghz and above isn't up for sale yet.
We are currently working on a solution for 3.1-3.7Ghz shared spectrum across all carriers.
Problem is the major 4 carriers in the US have old networks they are unwilling to upgrade immediately. So you have old GSM/WCDMA networks still blasting RF. Only in major population centers you will find LTE/LTE-A with CA and/or MIMO most of the time.
Not to mention most carriers are looking for small cell solutions instead of actual macro site solutions. Small cells are intended to fill in the gaps in major population centers. Especially in large buildings where propagation can be tricky.
It costs money to do the R&D / FOA / Push to Live Network / Service.
Kenya doesn't have to worry about all this shite lol.
This post was edited on 8/10 at 7:43 am
re: Why is America's Mobile internet slower then Kenya's?Posted by Ace Midnight on 8/10/17 at 7:26 am to CCTider
Short answer: Our communications infrastructure is still based largely on a wired model (although it is changing somewhat).
To be fair, we have a shite ton of bandwidth through wired networks. There was never the wired infrastructure for cable and telephone service in the third world, so those countries put a lot more effort into wireless networks.
Even in Eastern/Southern Europe, prior to cell phones, most ordinary people didn't have phone lines run to their houses. So, once everyone and their brother got Nokia phones in the 1990s, they ran with it.
To be fair, we have a shite ton of bandwidth through wired networks. There was never the wired infrastructure for cable and telephone service in the third world, so those countries put a lot more effort into wireless networks.
Even in Eastern/Southern Europe, prior to cell phones, most ordinary people didn't have phone lines run to their houses. So, once everyone and their brother got Nokia phones in the 1990s, they ran with it.
re: Why is America's Mobile internet slower then Kenya's?Posted by mdomingue on 8/10/17 at 8:29 am to ksayetiger
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If you are going to compare an african country to the US you need to put it over the southeast
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