Why You Don't Have a Broadband Connection

blandthrax writes "I ran across this article on The New Republic. The long and short of it indicates that the reason why almost 90% of Americans don't have a broadband connection is because current broadband providers are preventing other ISP's from entering the fray. The result: higher prices for broadband connections and a general lack of innovation. An interesting read full of good details. And, as usual, we learn that countries such as Japan and Korea are far ahead of the US in terms of innovation and technological saturation."

Comments

Oh boy....

[FuzzyMan45]

It's only been like 20 seconds, and the link has been slashdotted. Too bad there's no google cache.

There needs to be an entry in the guiness book of records.
"Fastest Slashdotting"

Nice quote

[rhadamanthus]

"Powell would be ripe for replacement--if his feckless, ideological approach didn't so perfectly reflect the president he serves."

So true, so true. Powell seems to really have absolutley NO CLUE on how to apporach or handle his job. Everything he has done so far has been primarily a benefit to big business (allowing telephone records to be sold, forcing TVs to use digital recievers, etc). And even that (benefiting business) he does poorly. I wish my daddy was secretary of state. Then I could be put in charge of an important government regulatory commision that I have no clue about too, as long as I support the president's ideology: business first--consumers (I hate that word!) second. It makes me sick.

----rhad

Dear Colin Powell,

[3.5 stripes]

Please bitch slap your son for us,

Thank you,

Consumers of America.

Re:UK CHIX ARE ASS-UGLY

[minghe]

Yeah, like this one. What a dog.

Get a grip.

Re:Invalid Argument

[ratamacue]

My point was not that we need to establish a 100% pure form of capitalism, where the tax rate is exactly 0% per citizen per year (anarchy, by definition), in order to see the benefits of a free market. My point was that the benefits are directly proportional to the size of government. Under a government which takes almost half of the average citizens' earnings per year, and is in debt by trillions of dollars, we are simply not even close to experiencing the solutions which capitalism has to offer the broadband market.

Re:Don't move just to get broadband. Get T1 instea

[afidel]

Why would you live there, I live in the Cleveland, Ohio suburbs and I am looking at 3 bedroom 2 bath houses, ~2k sq feet for $90K =) Take the extra 200K plus a like amount in financing charges and invest in the stock market. By the time I retire that should be about 3 million (doubling every 8 years with a real return of 5%), sounds like a much better use of money to me.