CWA Pushes to Build Infrastructure To Catch Up In High-Speed Internet

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CWA Pushes to Build Infrastructure To Catch Up In High-Speed Internet

By Doug Cunningham

Larry Cohen of the Communications Workers of America says it’s vital for the United States to have a focused public policy to build out the technological infrastructure for a 21st century internet. Cohen says it’s key to being economically competitive, but the U.S., he says, is seriously lagging many industrialized democracies in high speed internet.

: “Currently we have no public policy at all in the United States, and all the other large and now smaller economic democracies do have public policy in this area.”

The CWA has a web site - speedmatters,org It detailing its campaign to make dramatic gains in high-speed internet by 2010.

: “They’ve gone years and years ahead of where this country will ever get, unless we develop aggressive policies to take us to the same place.”

I read "dial-up warning" on many posts here and think, "What, is it still 1996?"

Korea kicks our butt in high speed access too. Just curious, what does your service run you a month?

Costs us $29.99 a month. We have had high speed cable since the summer of 1997.

Would switch to cable but we travel a lot and the local access numbers that Earthlink has still come in handy although they're not as vital as they used to be. We were in Tokyo just a couple of months ago actually. Wireless everywhere it seemed like.

but strangely enough I have only been billed once in five months so I don't know what is going on, really.

They won't bring anything in because of profits. Not enough people.

a t & t spends billions on advertising and promotion, then turns around and cries that it makes no money. boo hoo

a.t&t has consistently refused to provide dsl for our area, claiming we are too far from the office, and they will not put in any kind of substation or booster system even tho I live one mile from the university of California campus.

now they have cut a deal with the city of riverside for a monopoly of wireless connections using the city power poles for their terminals (?) and will provide very low access for free with a rising price scheme for faster and faster service. Of course only a t & t
can use this setup.

another monopoly just like the local cable outfit.

Msongs
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Can be found on Broadband Reports. More exactly, in the forum responses to stories on BBR. The place is stiff with Telco/Cable shills and astroturfers. Apparently, they are spending a lot of money to frame the discussions at the grassroots.

I do battle there a lot. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. ;-)

www.broadbandreports.com

WARNING: The place seems to be a magnet for right-wingers and anti-filesharing trolls.