Government Broadband
This 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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