CWA Urges Adoption Of High-Speed Internet Public Policy

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CWA Urges Adoption Of High-Speed Internet Public Policy

By Doug Cunningham

The Communications Workers of America say “Speed Matters” when it comes to internet access. And not just for entertainment. CWA President Larry Cohen says the U.S. has fallen woefully behind the rest of the world when it comes to widespread low-cost access to truly high-speed internet. So CWA has launched a campaign called “Speed Matters” to encourage development of a public policy to improve high-speed internet access in the U.S. Among the goals by 2010 are to help America catch up to the 21st century internet economy: a speed of at least 10 megabits per second download and 1 meg upload. CWA says an open internet must also be maintained for all. CWA also says infrastructure buildout of high speed capacity is critical if the U.S. is to catch up to nations like Japan and the twenty or so other nations that are ahead of the U.S. in internet speed.

pathetic

They laid the optical cable statewide here seven years ago and the fastest we get is still under 1 Mb... Damn thing probably won't work when they get around to turning it on. I believe they are waiting to kill net neutrality first.