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12/09/2025

Dúvidas (356) - Não será exagerado o alegado avanço tecnológico dos EUA?

Respondendo à pergunta no Quora «Why is Europe so technologically backward compared to the USA?», o polaco Arkadiusz Jenczak respondeu assim:

«Just this week I was looking for a good internet service provider in city of Helper, Utah. My friend is going to move there for couple of years and asked me for help since he is not very tech savvy. I reside in Poland, so by default my help can only be provided remotely, but thanks to internet you can find information independent on where you live. So anyway, I went to search for ISP. TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT.

Best service provider in 2024 (I was looking for fiber/FTTH connection) I could find, provides worse service than I had in Poland when I installed my fiber connection - in 2015. Literally, slower, with transfer caps, and price for the 100 Mbit/s connection+TV is 7 times higher than I pay for 1Gb/s connection + TV with more channels.

Got it? I have 10 times faster connection, no transfer limit, twice as much tv channels, for 15% of american service price. I am not sure if it is even fair to compare these services since american one is so far behind. Many providers do not even have the 100Mb/s option anymore.

Oh, and Poland in not even in the lead when it comes to internet speed and quality in EU.»

Já agora leia-se o aviso da AOL onde anuncia que no final deste mês irá descontinuar o serviço Dial-up Internet que é coisa que neste Portugal dos Pequeninos tecnologicamente atrasado é coisa de museu:

«AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025 this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued.»

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