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That’s no small feat considering that Japan, which has had commercial 3G since 2001, boasts the largest 3G subscriber base in the world. Japan had nearly 92 million 3G users at the end of March 2009. That’s 50 percent more than the United States. But that will change over the next five years as the Japanese 3G market reaches saturation and the surge in demand for 3G in the states, whose population is well over twice Japan’s, increases.

So, by 2011, the U.S. will have supplanted Japan. But that triumph will be short-lived. TeleGeography reports that the U.S. will be overtaken by China within three years. Let’s hope our 3G networks will be improved enough to deliver a decent experience by then.

]]> http://allthingsd.com/20090805/us-to-lead-in-crappy-3g-by-2011/feed/ 0 The Anchor Found Near the Cut Google Cable–It's From the S.S. Ballmer, Sir, Redux http://allthingsd.com/20080826/one-undersea-cable-to-find-them-one-undersea-cable-to-bind-them/ http://allthingsd.com/20080826/one-undersea-cable-to-find-them-one-undersea-cable-to-bind-them/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:05:52 +0000 John Paczkowski http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=3902 Who would have thought that a search company that began as a Ph.D. research project back in 1996 would someday become a behemoth of such bandwidth-consuming appetite that it would require its own high-bandwidth undersea communications cables? Earlier this year, Google revealed that it had joined a six-company consortium to build a new multi-terabit undersea cable linking the U.S. and Japan. And now it appears the company is planning at least two more. According to TeleGeography, Google (GOOG) is part of another consortium of carriers hoping to build an intra-Asian submarine cable system that would connect Japan with Guam, the Philippines island of Luzon, Hong Kong, southern Thailand and Singapore. The company is also said to have held exploratory discussions with a number of South African telecoms about jointly building another new subsea cable connecting to Africa. Why such interest in undersea optic cables? Google would likely claim the volume of data it needs to move around the world requires the kind of capacity they provide. But there’s another reason as well. Fast, reliable connectivity encourages people to use the Internet more. And that’s good for Google’s overall business. “Google wants people to pay as little as possible for access,” a source familiar with the company’s plans told ITWeb. “In fact, they don’t really care if it is totally free, because it is good for them in the long run.”

]]> http://allthingsd.com/20080826/one-undersea-cable-to-find-them-one-undersea-cable-to-bind-them/feed/ 0 The Anchor Found Near the Cut Google Cable–It's From the S.S. Ballmer, Sir, Redux http://allthingsd.com/20080826/one-undersea-cable-to-find-them-one-undersea-cable-to-bind-them-2/ http://allthingsd.com/20080826/one-undersea-cable-to-find-them-one-undersea-cable-to-bind-them-2/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:05:52 +0000 John Paczkowski http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/?p=3902 Who would have thought that a search company that began as a Ph.D. research project back in 1996 would someday become a behemoth of such bandwidth-consuming appetite that it would require its own high-bandwidth undersea communications cables? Earlier this year, Google revealed that it had joined a six-company consortium to build a new multi-terabit undersea cable linking the U.S. and Japan. And now it appears the company is planning at least two more. According to TeleGeography, Google (GOOG) is part of another consortium of carriers hoping to build an intra-Asian submarine cable system that would connect Japan with Guam, the Philippines island of Luzon, Hong Kong, southern Thailand and Singapore. The company is also said to have held exploratory discussions with a number of South African telecoms about jointly building another new subsea cable connecting to Africa. Why such interest in undersea optic cables? Google would likely claim the volume of data it needs to move around the world requires the kind of capacity they provide. But there’s another reason as well. Fast, reliable connectivity encourages people to use the Internet more. And that’s good for Google’s overall business. “Google wants people to pay as little as possible for access,” a source familiar with the company’s plans told ITWeb. “In fact, they don’t really care if it is totally free, because it is good for them in the long run.”

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