"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Broadband outrage

From David's (isen.blog) friend Bruch Kushnick

“The $200 Billion Broadband Scandal.” — AKA Where’s the 45MB/s I Already Paid for!

Reminds me of, years ago, listening to Telco flacks and Public Utility regulators ganging up on Telecomunications Inc. broadband initative in the Metro Lansing (Mich) area.

"oh we have such limited right of way, we don't know if we can allow that fiber to be strung"

and :

"oh, looks like somebody might make some money on this (home based business) and we have to be able to tax it"

Time for a new model.
Open up the pipes and let my people go (and ideas flow)

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