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."

Comments

Re:Off-topic!??!

[Ymiris]

They dislike me? :) They can sense I was posting from a windows box.

Re:Where's my flying car?

[woodhouse]

Here you go.

Re:What about existing platforms that show potenti

[cyt0plas]

It may support 10Mb both ways, but they certainly aren't going to give that to you upstream, unless you pay through the nose.