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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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Can I get an Amen!
If you can read this sig - the bitch fell off.
first post!!! you lame assholes... I can post first because my XBox is a american product and my pride in my great country and my great XBox accelerate everything...
If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!
How can I expect my post to be modded up when it's directly under the ASCII Goatse?? Fate is such a cruel, cruel master!
How was this modded off-topic? UTOPIA is exactly the type of big-broadband network the former FCC chief was describing.
I think I will have another cup of coffee!
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Why did you steal my login name?
Here you go.
It may support 10Mb both ways, but they certainly aren't going to give that to you upstream, unless you pay through the nose.
Contact Me (got tired of viruses emailing me).