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Government Broadband
by Steve Gibson, Dec 26, 2001 3:38pm PSTThis story on ZDNet examines the possibilites and justification of a government regulations being implemented for broadband internet connections. Mostly because of the ISP shutdowns shafting people. The Rhythms guys and their DSL lines and most recently Excite@Home.
"We think of network access as a utility like the telephone or power, and in fact network access is just as important to our livelihood and household operation as those other utilities," said Ribble, who works for chipmaker Intel. The outage, he said, "virtually ground our work lives to a stop."It's pretty lengthy and interesting discussing availability, government response, and all kinds of other stuff. Plus this news item has the added bonus of pushing my goofup on that Alice story down a little ways on the page.
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10Mbs/10Mbs would work nicely...im not greedy...100 would be better of course but I'll settle for 10 ;-) oh and extremely low latency
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Perhaps The government should do a better job at regulating the corporations and business practices now as it stands so that the customers don't get screwed in the end?
I bet the censors at the FCC can't wait to get meathooks into this so we can have morality legislated like they do for ham radio...
Every bit of regulation on medium of communication is one more thing the government can use to harrass and silence those whose speech they disagree with.