Looks like I got Salon Slashdotted for their “Free American Broadband” article. I hope this gives them a little extra business, they’re too great a webmag to be hurting for subscribers.
On the issue at hand, I’ve been reading about the internet access in other countries for a while now, and it always struck me as odd how backwards America is concerning broadband. I don’t buy the “population density” arguments, I think the main problem is that the government has given too much control of this market to the corporations, and I’m glad atleast someone agrees with me. To some, this isn’t a big issue like fixing our educational system, but it is a topic that deserves attention. Many countries offer residential 100Mbps access, here fiber to the home is taking ages to roll out.
If the U.S. wants control of the internet so badly, why can’t we devote some resources to keeping our infrastructure up to date? This isn’t a free market like the government wants to believe, there is no reason for telco companies to look out for their users. All they need to do is maintain the status quo, which is alarmingly low in America when it comes to broadband. I can’t believe DSL is still around 300k in some places. Yah that was broadband, in the 90s.
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