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Where Is The Broadband?

Posted by timothy on from the mostly-in-south-korea dept.

gouldtj writes "First Monday is running an article in its current issue entitled: The many paradoxes of broadband. It discusses some of the issues and ideas behind broadband, but seems to focus on: Where is it? There is also a really nice discussion on the telecom industry in general, along with the .com boom."

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  1. Asymmetry by captaineo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about the shocking asymmetry of download vs. upload speeds? Time Warner Road Runner just lowered our upload cap to 10KB/sec. This more than 20x slower than our max download rate (~225KB/sec).

  2. Re:How many of us take it for granted? by NineNine · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is it in fact a governmental responsibility to bring it to everyone?

    NO!I don't want it. I have no use for it. It poses no greater good, so I don't want my tax money going to pay for people to download porn and MP3's. No fucking way.