Comments on: American Broadband Is “Terrible” http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/04/08/american-broadband-is-terrible/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:37:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Luis http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/04/08/american-broadband-is-terrible/comment-page-1/#comment-25997 Luis Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:34:41 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/?p=1555#comment-25997 Japan had a policy called "<a href="http://blogd.com/wp/index.php/archives/1826" rel="nofollow">e-Japan</a>" which used industry incentives to assure nation-wide 30 Mbps broadband by 2005--and they achieved it about a year ahead of time. To be sure, Japan, a country 1/25th the size of the U.S., is easier to wire for broadband--but the point is, the U.S. doesn't even have a policy--aside from letting telecoms raise their rates in exchange for promises to wire for broadband--promises which were simply ignored with no consequences to the telecoms. Now they want to do away with Network Neutrality in exchange for--again--making the nation go broadband, so long as they are not held to it in any binding way. You can guess what what will happen if the government gives in to them. I think that, short of the government growing a pair and forcing the telecoms to advance (which I am pretty sure they won't do), the telecoms will not go broadband so long as they can make about the same amount of money without broadband; they will not go broadband until there's a definite profit motive. Right now that is not nearly strong enough. Japan had a policy called “e-Japan” which used industry incentives to assure nation-wide 30 Mbps broadband by 2005–and they achieved it about a year ahead of time. To be sure, Japan, a country 1/25th the size of the U.S., is easier to wire for broadband–but the point is, the U.S. doesn’t even have a policy–aside from letting telecoms raise their rates in exchange for promises to wire for broadband–promises which were simply ignored with no consequences to the telecoms. Now they want to do away with Network Neutrality in exchange for–again–making the nation go broadband, so long as they are not held to it in any binding way. You can guess what what will happen if the government gives in to them.

I think that, short of the government growing a pair and forcing the telecoms to advance (which I am pretty sure they won’t do), the telecoms will not go broadband so long as they can make about the same amount of money without broadband; they will not go broadband until there’s a definite profit motive. Right now that is not nearly strong enough.

]]> By: Sean P Aune http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/04/08/american-broadband-is-terrible/comment-page-1/#comment-25753 Sean P Aune Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:53:37 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/?p=1555#comment-25753 Well, just make sure you make those signs on really tall sticks so people of a normal height can read them, M ;) Well, just make sure you make those signs on really tall sticks so people of a normal height can read them, M ;)

]]> By: M http://www.seanpaune.com/2008/04/08/american-broadband-is-terrible/comment-page-1/#comment-25752 M Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:33:13 +0000 http://www.seanpaune.com/?p=1555#comment-25752 yeah! *starts making signs and posters to hand out* yeah! *starts making signs and posters to hand out*

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