Former FCC Chief Touts "Big Broadband"

Anonymous Coward writes "Reed Hundt has a vision about building a 10 to 100 Mbps network for every household in the U.S. He makes a great case for why it should be done and how we can pay for it. What's interesting about this piece is that Hundt advocates a new approach to universal service. Instead of giving away broadcast spectrum (for HDTV) and maintaining (ancient, inflexible) phone lines, we should spend money on building out a next generation fiber network to every household, and run both HDTV and phone over that network. Then we can stop funding the phone network (which is pretty much maxed out anyway) and sell off the HDTV spectrum for 10s of billions of dollars."

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Where's my flying car?

[Thud457]

They promised me a flying car!

Goddamned Tom Selleck told me I would be able to watch any movie ever made anywhere, anytime. I should kick his ass!

And what about that moon city?!!! The moon belongs to America! And clean, cheap fusion power stations are only 10 years away!