“FCC chairman Julius Genachowski at a conference today launched an effort to boost the speed of Internet access in the US to 100Mbps and higher,” Electronista reports.
“Dubbed 100 Squared, it would provide at least 100Mbps access to 100 million homes in the US. The official didn’t give a timetable for the rollout but hoped it would boost adoption of broadband from 65 percent today to 90 percent,” Electronista reports.
MacDailyNews Note: Actually, the “Prepared Remarks of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, NARUC Conference, February 16, 2010” documentation states that this is one of the goals under a “2020 vision,” so it’s 100Mbps Internet access in 100 million U.S. homes by the year 2020. Unless they meant “20/20 vision,” in which case all bets are off.
Electronista continues, “The ongoing National Broadband Plan is expected to help out and, among other plans, would gradually repurpose the Universal Service Fund from phone lines to Internet connections. Genachowski also warned that the US shouldn’t stop at the symbolic 100Mbps and pointed to the Google Fiber project’s 1Gbps as an example of what could be done by a motivated private company.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Comparing average Internet access speeds of countries with significantly different land areas, not to mention topography, is folly. The U.S., for example, covers 3,790,000 square miles. Singapore, for another example, is 274 square miles. Guess which one is far easier to cover and has faster average Internet access speeds?
The Internet was birthed by DARPA and Verizon didn’t exist then , AT&T;opted out and Comcast & Time-Warner were not involved. It was funded by DoD for the DoD. It was turned over to public use due to the efforts of then Sen Al Gore & others.
That’s the truth of the matter.
That is a twist. Government expands use of power, power expands to new fuels, fuel destorys environment, people die because the federal government, planet becomes toxic, and government blames it on the corporations!!!
True government policy and plolitcal blame game to the very people the government setup to fail.
Funny, make a great movie!
As I can tell it was private citizens that had the ideas and brought them to companies or the government. Some had been use for problems that the government had. These solutions were used and the credit goes to the GOVERNMENT? Holy hell!
If the government was so smart, how did it fall for the global warming HOAX!!! Hockey stick! They are admitting NO significant rise in global temperture since 1995. Shocker! Public officials MAKE plenty of mistakes. DARPA searches for answers from the private sector. So the Internet was envisioned by private parties and used by the government. Remember agent orange? Remember all the atom bombs with the radiactive fallout? How about the hundreds of billions wasted on pork, 500k for a toilet seat?
Some of you needed to pull you head out of Uncle Sam’s rear end!
Next we will be completely watched by cameras, computers, and the government with all that beautiful fiber and ultra high speed shit you guys want. Add the energy needed to run this, the product waste, and where are you going to put it? In China were the ground and water it totally toxic?
Holy hell are you guy dense.
Counter point your beautiful government view points.
You are the product of bad breeding and poor taste. Your unfortunate existence and lack of proper analytical skills, and your misanthropic personality give credit to improper US government policy making.
Your disjointed commentary is comedic and sad.
“Counter point” to your meaningless rant.
Allow me to use Question’s “logic” in a related fashion.
1. Andrea Yates was a member of a Christian worship group led by the itinerant Christian preacher, Michael Peter Woroniecki
2. Andrea Yates was convicted of murdering her five children by drowning them in a bathtub
3. John the Baptist indicated that he enjoyed submerging sinners in water
Using the line of reasoning you seem to be promoting here, it would be reasonable to make the following inference:
4. Christianity predisposes people to murder their children by drowning them.
@Raymond in DC:
I understand your concern regarding “taxes” (actually, use fees), but as a taxpayer, don’t I have an interest if a private company wants to *consume* public land by putting a big wooden pole on it?
And FYI, a cute trick that’s happened here in NJ is that Verizon got through a change in State law that says that when the services on the pole are <51% POTS, then they become exempt from paying local towns their “telephone pole tax” … even though Verizon still (a) has the pole, and (b) is leasing the pole real estate to others at a profit, and (c) have lowered their “%” count because of simply moving some of their customers over from copper to fiber. Ain’t that a sweet loophole?
In the meantime…
@wmd
When Verizon (a for-profit business) stopped by my house a few years ago trying to sell me Fiber, I told the salesman that I’d sign up right then and there for a 10bT Static IP connection if they could lock me in a rate of $35/month for 5 years … and I’d pay the full cost upfront. Yes, this was a bit of a lowball on my part – – but that’s a time-honored Private industry negotiation tactic.
Care to guess what the salesguy’s response was?
A: “What’s Static IP?”
or
B: “What’s ‘ten-base tee’?”
or
C: Both A & B.
I kid you not. Companies like this deserve the full brunt of what Capitalism is supposed to do, which is to drive consumer value by weeding out the slow & inefficient. If I can’t even get affordable 10bT while living in the most affluent county in the most population-dense state, then the current business model has utterly failed and its time to try something else.
-hh
“You are the product of bad breeding and poor taste. Your unfortunate existence and lack of proper analytical skills, and your misanthropic personality give credit to improper US government policy making.”
Wow, that hit you like a ton of global warming policy. But thanks for the glowing review. I know that was a the silver bullet. Bulls eye!
“You are the product of bad breeding and poor taste. Your unfortunate existence and lack of proper analytical skills, and your misanthropic personality give credit to improper US government policy making.”
<snip> Bulls eye! </snip>
Thank you.
“Guess which one is far easier to cover and has faster average Internet access speeds?”
So what? This is the USA. We can beat any country, big or small, if we have the will to do it.
The FCC broadband projects are the only worthwhile activity occurring in the Obama administration. I think Steve Jobs is advising them.
Letting the market decide is what brought us the electricity crisis, the housing crisis, the Wall Street Crisis and Windows on 90%+ of computers.
Government regulation is required to push the ISPs to supply the public with broadband speeds that compete with the rest of the world.
And the land mass argument is weak. If speed increases in targeted metropolitan areas and then spread outward, we could have competitive speeds in areas like San Francisco and New York in short order.
Unfortunately, the government no longer represents the PEOPLE but cares more about the corporations. And it’s going to get worse. The morans who’ve forgotten the eight years of HELL we just went through with BushCo want to take us back there.
I’m happy at 35 Mbps download speed, but100 Mbps would be great.
The question is, when will UPLOAD speeds stop being throttled? I’m stuck at 1 Mbps upload, which is wimpy to say the least. Thanks a lot Time Warner, not. Meanwhile, Verizon FIOS offers 5 Mbps upload. Hmm.