Demand Super-Fast Broadband in the US
An article in the NY Times yesterday really upset me. If you live in the US, it should upset you as well.
Hong Kong has a broadband service that costs less than $26 a month. This option for its fiber-to-the-home service offers a speed of 1,000 megabits a second. A gig. To put that into perspective, Verizon offers the “fastest” broadband in the country for $145. It’s speed: 50 megabits down, 20 megabits up.
“Why doesn’t Verizon offer gigabit service?” Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic.net asks. “Because it doesn’t have to.”
We are sheep. We need an Apple 1984 moment. Someone needs to throw a sledgehammer through somebody’s screen to wake us up.
But that’s the problem, isn’t it? The Internet is not an option that people can boycott. We can’t turn it off. We need our broadband. As such, it will take a bold company to produce the demand. We need a company that is willing to push the limits, building the infrastructure, and supply the speeds that will force the rest of the ISPs to respond.
Will it be Google? Verizon? The US Government? There are so many possibilities out there, but nobody is stepping up yet.
If you are “in the know” about a company that needs support, please tell us. We will help get the word out through social media. We will blast it out there for the masses to see. Slow Internet is no longer an option. We need someone to step up today.
Who will it be?
They want $7.2 billion now. If we don’t get upgrades after that then the government should take them over, like they have with so many other private industries in the last few years.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9132419/Of_subways_government_subsidies_and_broadband
You know, the government already gave the ISP’s $50 million to upgrade their infrastructure. They wasted it and didn’t upgrade anything. Now they are asking for more…..
I know $50 million isn’t much when you’re talking about upgrading across the entire country. But we can all see where this is heading. Give us money to upgrade, steal that money and don’t upgrade anything, give us more money to upgrade, steal money, do nothing, etc. etc.
I pay about 30$ for a 1Mbit/s connection, is the best you can get in vzla :/
VERIZON is not even close to fastest. Mediacom 105
i still have dial up.