A Copyfighter's Musingsby Derek SlaterTowards a bigger, better broadband future- January 31, 2008 (Extended cross-post from Google Public Policy Blog) Broadband deployment in the U.S. is at best disappointing and at worst a crisis. The United States lags behind other countries in broadband uptake per capita, ranked 15th in the latest Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data. While consumers in Sweden and Japan are starting to zoom ahead with 20 and even 90 megabitsecond connections delivered over fiber connections, U.S. consumers pay more for less, with only DSL..http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/2008/01/30/towards-a-bigger-better-broadband-future/ |