Broadband Telephony 2.0 - Latest Comments in Round One Broadband Stimulus is Done

Re: Round One Broadband Stimulus is Done

Jim Tait — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:48:15 -0000

Mark--you're right on as always. But, let's remember that the NTIA let the incumbents off the hook when they diluted the mapping and planning procedures to allow not only confidentiality (when not needed) and also to use census blocks rather than the household and advertised speeds rather than actual delivered. We need to tighten up those loose ends! We need people to overcome the millions $ that are given in campaign contributions to protect monopolies and corporate cabals.

Re: Round One Broadband Stimulus is Done

Jim Davis — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:49:07 -0000

There is probably not one of your readers Mark who has not fought with their internet provider during the past few months because their traditional level of performance is truly in the dark ages. It's hard to get the Roku player to work at dial up speeds. I concur with your thinking. The quantum leap is about to begin thanks to Stimulus. We'll keep our fingers crossed. America should be better than 20th in the World in Broadband... we should be ashamed of that.

Re: Round One Broadband Stimulus is Done

Laurance Lewis — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:22:22 -0000

Well said Mark. I'm amazed that Americans and their representatives are willing to settle for "good enough" when it comes to broadband. These are the same people and politicians who demand superiority when it comes to just about all other areas of international engagement.

Re: Round One Broadband Stimulus is Done

AndrewCohill — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:02:57 -0000

The 100 megabit target as the lowest acceptable capacity is exactly right. Anything less puts communities at a severe jobs and economic development disadvantage. We talked recently to a major employer interested in placing some of their workforce at home to cut commuting costs and enable more work flexibility, and they want a 50 megabit symmetric connection between the worker's home and the corporate network to keep latency to a minimum, ensure data security (no local data storage), and enable HD videoconferencing.