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Broadband HiJinks
One of the most interesting stories today is the Robert Cringley essay on the reason that the US has ( almost permanently) abdicated the broadband leadership in the wiring of the country for true high speed connections.
I was working in the midst of the “Video Dial Tone” discussions in the late 1980′s and early 1990′s – In fact was involved in field sales of 45Mbit/sec video codec systems for telco transmission. Since I migrated to the EDA industry in 1995, I had lost sight of the issues relating to the regulatory environment, and had not idea that telco lobbyists had been able to write a substitition provision into the law of 1996 that allowed them to qualify ADSL as “broadband” in cases where economics would not justify a fiber to the home or fiber / coax hybrid distribution.
Conveniently, it seemed that the economics never quite justified the true broadband, except in a few Potemkin village settings – and as a result the regulatory “letter of the law” was met with 128KB ADSL rollouts.
Combine that with the nonesense of wireless carriers for the past 20 years, and it appears that we have gotten what we deserve.
The only problem is that we will spend the next twenty years digging out of the hole. if (and only if) there is recognition of the problem.
Take your pick of 100 non-techie members – otherwise educated, intelligent voters – and I’d bet that most of them would think we have the best phone system / internet service in the world.
We always have. Maybe not always will.
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