[IP] Re: Study Gives High Marks to U.S. Internet - New York Times

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Brett Glass [brett@lariat.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:41 PM
To: rberger@ibd.com
Cc: David Farber; Ip ip
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   Study Gives High Marks to U.S. Internet - New York Times

Robert, and everyone:

Why is it that so many people seem to deny the existence of wireless
broadband providers? (Susan Crawford and others have even done so in
their testimony before bodies such as Congressional committees
and the FCC.)

I have been to Saratoga (played there with the Celtic Band Avalon Rising
when it started 17 years ago) and I must say I would be extremely surprised
if there were not several wireless operators like my own doing business in
that area. In fact, I've just done a quick Web search and have found one:

http://www.bullpenwireless.com/

--Brett Glass

At 09:31 AM 4/9/2008, David Farber wrote:


>________________________________________
>From: Robert J. Berger [rberger@ibd.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:29 AM
>To: John Markoff
>Cc: David Farber
>Subject: Re: [IP] Study Gives High Marks to U.S. Internet - New York Times
>
>Any assertion that the US has world class internet connectivity for
>the majority of its Citizens is bunk.
>
>I normally live in Saratoga, CA, part of Silicon Valley, and where I
>live I STILL can not get ANY consumer broadband service. No Cable
>Modem, no DSL.
>
>For the next few months, I am living in downtown San Francisco in a high rise
>apartment building set among other high rise apartment buildings right
>next to a major telecom hub and though we have DSL, its not
>particularly fast or anything.
>
>This is the kind of location where in other countries such as Japan or
>S. Korea they have fiber to the building and ethernet to the
>apartments at 100M - 1G.
>
>Instead we should have a baseline attitude more like Professor Payne's
>as per the earlier post on IPer's list:
>
>"Sadly broadband speeds in this country aren't really broadband at
>all. I won't be happy until every home has a one gigabit per second
>connection," he told BBC News.
>He added: "If we were able to afford to dig up the road in the 1980s
>to roll out cable TV then we can afford to do it again."
>
>But this time horizontally divested so that the people who own/control
>the pipes do not own/control the content.
>
>Rob
>
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