And why would it be "against all odds" that penetration for a valuable service increases? A case of [Europe.Is.Doomed™ Alert] within the EU Commission? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Enhanced competition is driving better services, and consumers nowadays regard their broadband internet access as an essential part of life
So it certainly looks like this Europe.Is.Doomed case is not coming from the EU Commission itself, but can be narrowed down to the people who are entrusted to putting EU press releases in English language together. What does it tell us, hmmmm? Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
Serious PeopleTM conventional wisdom that dictates that: Broadband is a luxury item, not a basic utility like water, electricity or sanitation
Never mind that the obligation to identify pay-as-you-go customers comes from the EU and has nothing to do with consumer rights but with State security concerns...
The pay-as-you-go applies to mobile phone SIM cards, not residential broadband, no?
I'd like to know how widespread Japan's famed 100MB really is. 100MB in urban areas is not that special - you can find it in parts of London.
As a revealing indicator, I'd be more interested in the baseline service on Japan's less central islands.
I recently came across a mail from someone trying to kill a project, asking for various calculations before it could go on, that had to take into accounts some powers expressed in kW.h/h.
I mentioned in passing that it simplified nicely as kW and that it did not bode well for the person's competence. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
You can achieve 10 kW.h/h with 10 kW during one hour, or 600 kW during one minute and then 0 kW during the following 59 minutes... Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
And average power should still be expressed in kW.
Anyway, I know you're trying to catch me ;-) Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi
If one wants to denote average power over some time frame, one should specifically say so. Also, different kernels (weighting functions) result in different output - the naive 'sum of previous n values/n' rectangle filter is very lumpy in frequency space (sinc function), instead it's better to use something monotonic like the exponential weighting function (each average is a convex combination of the current value and the previous average).
(The thing about nitpicks is that there is always someone more pedantical than you :)
