Obama's Broadband Initiative

Russ Steele

Here are two articles on Broadband Initiative issues:

Broadband Stimulus Plan: How About Some Data First?

CC, TV, Internet set for big changes in 2009

Comments

[Charlie Kotan]

Interesting article on Slashdot regarding non-cable/DSL internet. Link [1] lists Smarter Broadband, but I didn't check for others in this area.

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| WISPS Mean Cable and DSL Aren't the Only Choices |
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| posted by timothy on Friday February 06, @07:33 (Wireless Network|
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/06/0158225 |
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[0]Brett Glass writes "Feel like you're stuck with a no-win choice between expensive cable modem service and slow DSL for Internet?
Currently using satellite, with long latencies that make it impossible to do VoIP or interactive gaming? One of America's best kept secrets, so it seems, is the [1]wide coverage of WISPs b terrestrial (not satellite or
cellular) wireless broadband Internet providers. The linked article gives an overview of WISPs and provides a handy map showing their nationwide coverage (more than 750,000 square miles of the continental US b and only about one third of the WISPs in the US are on the map so far). Most WISPs are small, independent, consumer-friendly, and tech savvy, making them a better choice than big, corporate ISPs who [2]can't even tell a penny from a dollar."

Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/02/06/0158225

Links:
0. http://www.brettglass.com/mailbrett.html
1. http://bennett.com/blog/2009/02/thought-you-had-no-alternatives-for-broadband/
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCJ3Oz5JVKs&eurl=http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/02/05/verizon-customer-service-not-so-good-at-math/

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The linked article gives an overview of WISPs and provides a handy map showing their nationwide coverage (more than 750,000 square miles of the continental US b and only about one third of the WISPs in the US are on the map so far).

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[Geo]

Great article... I'm really interested in global broadband more than I am US. Telecommunications needs to span the world...